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June Weekend Reads: Celebrating Pride

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Happy Pride Month from Sprague Library! We’re dedicated to embracing and celebrating diversity here at 麻豆传媒在线. This month we’ve selected an assortment of print books about LGBT+ history that you can check out of the library. Keep your eyes peeled for the continuation of our Pride Month spotlight featuring eBooks later in the month.

by Susan Stryker

“Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.鈥

by Meg-John Barker

From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.鈥

by C Riley Snorton

鈥淒rawing on a deep and varied archive of materials–early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films–Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.鈥