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Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

Author

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Description

Based on archival research and with a focus on Lorde's connections to the environment.

Year

2024

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Author

Francesca Wade

Description

Comprehensive literary biography that also covers how Alice B. Toklas managed Stein's literary output.

Year

2025

Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires

Author

Francisca Yuenki Lai

Description

Based on interviews with Indonesian domestic workers who migrated to Hong Kong.

Year

2020

Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming

Author

Carly Thomsen

Description

The documentary In Plain Sight, which was directed and produced by author Carly Thomsen, features some of the interviewees.

Year

2021

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

Author

Boel Westin

Description

Includes 183 photos.

Year

2024

Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

Author

Leslie Brody

Description

Based on correspondence, court documents, dozens of interviews, and memoirs.

Year

2020

Sybille Bedford: A Life

Author

Selina Hastings

Description

Literary biography based on archival material, correspondence, and diaries and Bedford's semiautobiographical novels.

Year

2021

An Ordinary Landscape of Violence: Women Loving Women in Guyana

Author

Preity R. Kumar

Description

Based on interviews with 33 women.

Year

2024

Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty

Author

Louise Siddons

Description

Includes 72 images, mostly photos by Gilpin.

Year

2024

Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City

Author

Anahi Russo Garrido

Description

Covers three generations of women.

Year

2020