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Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one. As his grandmother’s sole caretaker, he spends his days cooped up in their apartment, avoiding his neighborhood masjid, his estranged sister, and even his best friend (who also happens ....
Autor_innen: Joukhadar, Zeyn
From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her ....
Autor_innen: Mathis, Ayana
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and ....
Autor_innen: Woolf, Virginia
The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short - and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its ....
Autor_innen: Hall, Radclyffe
Collected Short Stories 2008-2024
In 1920's Berlin, the recovered diaries of transgender model Heike expose her as the mysterious muse and subject behind Christian Schad's best-known painting. After signing her Gender Recognition Certificate, a trans woman channels the offbeat glamour of a forgotten movie star at a Brighton gay bar. A well-known journalist finds herself ....
Autor_innen: Jacques, Juliet
A landmark in feminist literature, The Women’s Room is a biting social commentary of a world gone silently haywire. Written in the 1970s but with profound resonance today, this is a modern allegory that offers piercing insight into the social norms accepted blindly and revered so completely.It follows the transformation of Mira Ward and ....
Autor_innen: French, Marilyn
The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Written in 1937, this was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's ....
Autor_innen: Woolf, Virginia
Auf einer Demonstration trifft die junge Kunststudentin Nice auf die hinreißende Rebellin M, die von Nice nach einem Missgeschick zu einem Date überredet wird. Der Alltag hat viele Mittel und Wege, dem Paar Kiesel und Felsen in den Weg zu legen und dann...
Autor_innen: Helmel, Stef
Es war schon gegen Nachmittag, als ich wieder den Taksim überquerte und bald darauf unten beim Fischmarkt anlangte. Da die Restaurants entlang der Brücke ihre Preise der gehobenen Klasse angepasst hatten, schlenderte ich an den eleganten Lokalen im unteren Brückenbereich vorbei, stieg dann die Treppe hinauf und war bald bei der ....
Autor_innen: Henisch, Sonja
Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists
Through stories at once poetic and poignant "There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart" offers a powerful elixir for all who rebel against systemic violence and injustice. The contemporary renewal of Jewish anarchism draws on a history of suffering, ranging from enslavement and displacement to white nationalism and genocide. Yet it also ....
Autor_innen: Milstein, Cindy (Hg.)
An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
This Arab is queer, proud, profound, curious, content, angry - a force for change. This Arab cannot be put in a box, closet or kept out by damaging stereotypes, regimes or orthodoxy. Elevating 18 writers from around the world, this ground-breaking anthology of short memoirs and essays is for anyone who finds reductionist identity politics ....
Autor_innen: Jahshan, Elias (Ed.)
Nathan Bird doesn’t believe in happy endings. Although he’s the ultimate film buff and an aspiring screenwriter, Nate’s seen the demise of too many relationships to believe that happy endings exist in real life.Playing it safe to avoid a broken heart has been his MO ever since his father died and left his mom to unravel—but this ....
Autor_innen: Callender, Kacen
