Reading & Education

Trauma-related books

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. van der Kolk

Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw. 

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter Levine

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate

My Grandmother’s Hands:
Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors:
Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher

Transgender / Gender-nonconformity

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Meno

How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are
by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond and In-Between
by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

Transgender History by Susan Stryker

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

Undoing Gender by Judith Butler

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman

The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism and Transgender Rights by Deborah Rudacille 

The End of Gender by Debrah Soh

Sexuality & Relationships 

More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert 

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern 

Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You by Kathryn Gonzales & Karen Rayne  
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships by Mark A. Michaels, Lyssa Browne, et al.

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality by Ela Przybylo

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown. 

Think Like A Feminist by Carol Hay

Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships
by Juno Roche

Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments  byLucie Fielding  

Come as you Are by Emily Nagoski

Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy & Dossie Easton

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

Queer Theory and Native Studies: The Heteronormativity of Settler Colonialism
By Andrea Smith

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Bi-Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Sheri Eisner

Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World by Robyn Ochs