#Meg-John Barker

[considermycat]

“What would happen if gender creativity was celebrated, not punished? If trans people were seen as a gift to those around them, prompting them to reflect on their own genders and lives too?”

Travis Alabanza, quoted in Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele, p.144

#travis alabanza #gender #gender: a graphic guide #meg-john barker #jules scheele #trans #trans lives are human lives #nonbinary #enby

[sounds-of-my-silence]

Ok I'm VERY late to the program having just watched The Owl House S3 E1 last night BUT! I searched around and I haven't seen anyone talking about the fact that this:

Is a real book! [Image is a screenshot of S3 E1 of the owl house showing Camila Noceda's room littered with notes and books as she's learning how to care for her now 6 children - includes a small edit so that the book entitled "Life Ain't Binary" is circled in yellow]

It's called Life Isn't Binary [pictured in the above image] and it's by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker, two amazing queer therapists/mental health writers. I haven't read the entire book yet but what I've read so far is extraordinary - it dives into polyamory and hard stuff that isn't talked about enough like the gay/straight binary, cis/trans binary and even the binary/nonbinary binary, and so much more good stuff! So props to Camila Noceda for really going above and beyond on the self-education. Mom of the year right there.

#toh #the owl house #toh s3 #toh spoilers #camila noceda #life ain't binary #life isn't binary #book recommendations #alex iantaffi #meg-john barker

[auntbibby]

TERFS PLEASE READ UP ON JUDITH BUTLERS THOUGHTS ON TRANS vs. TERF CONFLICT

U MIGHT HAVE A CHANGE OF HEART

#terf #gender critical #gender cynical #terfs #transgender #judith butler #gender is a social construct #gender trouble #meg-john barker #jules scheele #feminism #radical feminism #3rd wave feminism #trans rights #trans women #trans pride

[rosemariecawkwell]

TBR Pile Review: Life Isn't Binary, by Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi

Format: 237 pages, PaperbackPublished: May 21, 2019 by Jessica Kingsley PublishersISBN: 9781785924798 (ISBN10: 1785924796)Language: English Description Challenging society’s rigid and binary ways of thinking, this original work shows the limitations that binary thinking has regarding our relationships, wellbeing, sense of identity, and more. Explaining how we can think and act in a less rigid…

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#Alex Iantaffi #Book review #feminism #gender and sexuality #Life isn&039;t binary #Meg-John Barker #non-binary #Non-fiction #Queer

[tonguesofdestruction]

Meg-John Barker, Julia Scheele - Queer - Eine illustrierte Geschichte Buchkritik

Meg-John Barker, Julia Scheele – Queer – Eine illustrierte Geschichte Buchkritik

Von Meg-John Barker und Julia Scheele gibt es mit dem Sachcomic “Queer – Eine illustrierte Geschichte” eine Veröffentlichung zur Geschichte und Entstehung von Queer-Theorie und LGBTQ-Aktivismus. Er führt durch die historischen Entwicklungen, erklärt Begrifflichkeiten und stellt einzelne Theoretikerinnen und Bewegungen vor. Weiter heißt es in einer Info des Verlags:“In Form eines Sachcomics…

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#Julia Scheele #Meg-John Barker #Queer #Queer - Eine illustrierte Geschichte #Unrast Verlag

[queerographies]

[Gender. Una storia per immagini][Meg-John Barker][Jules Scheele]

Gender: una storia per immagini, un manuale in cui ci si immerge in idee complesse e mutevoli sulla mascolinità e la femminilità, in cui si esaminano i generi non binari, trans e fluidi e l’intersezione delle esperienze di genere con la razza, la sessuali

Ogni giorno riceviamo diversi messaggi confusi, complessi e spesso contraddittori sul genere, in inglese “gender”. Il genere è connesso con qualsiasi aspetto della nostra vita. Non possiamo farne a meno, anche volendolo. Ma cos’è esattamente il genere? E cosa significa quando viene affermato che il genere è un costrutto sociale che cambia nel tempo e nello spazio? A queste e numerose altre…

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#2022 #Anne Fausto-Sterling #bell hooks #comics #Fandango libri #gender #gender studies #Gender. Una storia per immagini #Gender: A Graphic Guide #Judith Butler #Jules Scheele #letteratura grafica #Lorenza Entilli #Meg-John Barker #nonfiction #Rita Brancato #Simone de Beauvoir

[heylittledino]

Queer: A Graphic History

Meg-John Barker, Julia Scheele

I'm loving this book with all my heart.

#pride art #book #book art #Meg-John Barker #Julia Scheele #pride month

[your-subby-creature]

It is so silly that I'm technically working right now. I'm reading books about sex for my job. While doing my laundry. With a plug up my ass. Hello?

#Creature rambles #ask not what you can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for you #for the record what follows are the books im reading #1) A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex & Disability by A. Andrews #2) Sexuality A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele #3) Unf*ck Your Consent by Dr. Faith Harper #highly reccomend ALL of them #and 3 is only $5 #so i double rec it

[makingqueerhistory]

Any queer webcomic/graphic novel recommendations?

Yes!

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together.

Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker with Jules Scheele

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.

Boyfriends. Volume One: A Webtoon Unscrolled Graphic Novel by Refrainbow

Jock, Goth, Nerd, and Prep are all juniors in college. But studying is the last thing on their minds as they are mainly interested in getting a boyfriend. Or multiple boyfriends.

The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill

The Tea Dragon Society is the two-time Eisner Award-winning gentle fantasy that follows the story of a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons. 

#queer fiction #queer nonfiction #lgbt fiction #lgbt nonfiction #queer graphic novels #queer webcomics #answered

[the---hermit]

23|01|2024

I am pretty confident with my study plan, I have been quite productive in the past few days and I am planning to do as much as I can this week. The goal is to be done with my more structured tasks by Friday, so that I can take the entire weekend off to rest, and then dedicate the next week to reviewing everything multiple times. I think I should be able to get to this goal, and I am very much looking forward do having two whole days to do absolutely nothing.

calm hobbit winter activities and productivity:

read first thing in the morning

finished fixing a few pages of notes I forgot about yesterday

reread and annotated important passages of The Pornographer by Restif De La Bretonne

reread and annotated important passages of D'Alembert's Dream by Denis Diderot

started to reread and annotate important passages of The Philosophy In The Boudoir by Sade

daily Irish practice on duolingo

continued my tma relistening and my witcher rewatch

📖:A Day Of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon, Genderqueer And Non-Binary Genders edited by Meg-John Barker, Walter Pierre Bouman, Christina Richards (this book has been in my book purgatory aka my currently reading shelves for 2 whole years, and I decided this is the time to get back to it and finally finish it)

#studyblr #studyinspo #uniblr #university #journal #journaling #productivity #studying #calm hobbit winter #study space #student life #knife gang #mine #the---hermit

[what-even-is-thiss]

hi, do you know any good books on being trans and trans rights and (anti) gender essentialism and stuff? only reading some of your posts has made me realise that i'm not as educated on this stuff as i feel i should be. i def have some mindsets that might even be kinda terf-y and i'm not proud of that and would like to learn more about it. google isn't giving me much and you seem like the kinda guy who has a rec list for everything haha, but absolutely no pressure (and if u have a kofi or smthing i'll happily donate for ur time ofc)

I do have a ko-fi if you feel so compelled. It’s linked in my blog description.

But if you wanna know more about queer issues in general and why in queer theory and gender theory definitions and solid categories aren’t really useful with the population as a whole I think that Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker is good for beginners. Barker has quite a few books on gender and sexuality, in fact. They’re alright at simplifying these overly academic concepts for a general audience.

If you’re interested in brain differences and lack thereof between the sexes, this video is a good introduction to some basic concepts and cites specific studies:

[considermycat]

“Gender identification is a kind of melancholia. We learn that being one gender is prohibited to us and we internalise that prohibition, but feel it as an unexplained sense of loss and sadness.”

Judith Butler, quoted in Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele, p.124

#judith butler #gender #gender identity #gender: a graphic guide #meg-john barker #jules scheele #nonbinary #enby

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

Dear Makenzie – I just wanted to say a big thank you for all the stuff you post here; I really think it played no small part in my decision to end things with my bf/fwb recently because he wasn’t great at listening to my boundaries in bed (only at the level of kissing/heavy petting, so nothing serious was involved). He has real mental health issues which means he’s genuinely really awful at retaining short-term information so I don’t blame him for anything, but your posts really made me realise that just because he isn’t at ‘fault’ or being malicious still didn’t mean I shouldn’t compromise myself. I really think your way of framing consent helped me to look after myself and go after a sexual relationship *I* want while also being able to stay on good terms with someone genuinely important to me – your work is genuinely awesome! <3 <3

hey!!! this is really awesome, and I'm glad to hear you were able to make that decision for yourself while maintaining a positive relationship with someone who matters to you :) I wish everyone this ability to recognize when relationships aren't meeting their needs and exit the relationship as comfortably as possible.

if it's not too tacky to promo another book in response to someone else telling me about their life, I would like to strongly recommend Meg-John Barker's book Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships, which has a lot of really great thoughts about amicable, mutually respectful breakups for anyone else who might be interested in such a thing.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

International Non-Binary People's Day

🦇 Good morning, bookish bats! It's International Non-Binary People's Day! Looking to add some great non-binary books to your ever-growing TBR? Here are books from authors who publicly identify as non-binary, starring characters that are non-binary, too! Which are you reading first?

✨ Fiction ✨ 💛 She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan 🤍 Loveless by Alice Oseman 💜 Nettleblack by Nat Reeve 🖤 Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor 💛 Truth & Dare by So Mayer 🤍 X by Davey Davis 💜 Chlorine by Jade Song 🖤 Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee 💛 I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver 🤍 On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden 💜 Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 🖤 The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld 💛 The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey 🤍 The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang 💜 Outlawed by Anna North 🖤 An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon 💛 The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta 🤍 Bianca Torre Is Afraid of Everything by Justine Pucella Winans 💜 Jamie by L. D. Lapinski 🖤 Mordew by Alex Pheby

✨ Non-Fiction ✨ 💛 In Their Shoes by Jamie Windust 🤍 Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon 💜 Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 🖤 Gender Euphoria by Laura Kate Dale 💛 A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson 🤍 What’s the T? The No-nonsense Guide to All Things Trans And/or Non-binary for Teens by Juno Dawson 💜 Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

#books #book recommendation #nonbinary #nonbinary pride #nonbinary character #battyaboutbooks #batty about books

[rotationalsymmetry]

I grabbed this book from the bookstore thinking it was about being non-binary.

I was wrong.

[ID 1: cover of a book with colorful letters (filled with tiny ones and zeroes) in a white background, reading: "life isn't binary: on being both, beyond, and in-between, by Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi, forward by CN Lester." (Colon and the word "by" added for clarity.) End ID.]

[ID 2: photo of table of contents page, with six chapters titled "sexualities", "genders", "relationships", "bodies", "emotions", and "thinking. End ID.]

It's so much better.

#I don't even know what the last two chapters mean

[rockislandadultreads]

Nonfiction Thursday: LGBTQIA+ History Month

The LGBTQ+ History Book by DK Publishing

Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian love poetry of Sappho to the Kinseys' modern sexuality studies, and features biographies of key figures from Anne Lister to Allen Ginsberg.

The LGBTQ+ History Book celebrates the victories and untold triumphs of LGBTQ+ people throughout history, such as the Stonewall Riots and first transgender surgeries, as well as commemorating moments of tragedy and persecution, from the Renaissance Italian “Night Police” to the 20th century “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy. The book also includes major cultural cornerstones - the secret language of polari, Black and Latinx ballroom culture, and the many flags of the community - and the history of LGBTQ+ spaces, from 18th-century “molly houses” to modern “gayborhoods.”

The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman

The fight for gay and lesbian civil rights - the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers - is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. In “the most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement” (The Economist), Lillian Faderman tells this unfinished story through the dramatic accounts of passionate struggles with sweep, depth, and feeling.

The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when gays and lesbians were criminals, psychiatrists saw them as mentally ill, churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s; the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties; the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic; and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality.

Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker & Jules Scheele

Activist-academic Meg John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. A kaleidoscope of characters from the diverse worlds of pop-culture, film, activism and academia guide us on a journey through the ideas, people and events that have shaped 'queer theory'.

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.

Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what's 'normal', such as Alfred Kinsey's view of sexuality as a spectrum between heterosexuality and homosexuality; Judith Butler's view of gendered behavior as a performance; the play Wicked, which reinterprets characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; or moments in Casino Royale when we're invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media.

Fire Island by Jack Parlett

Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a stunning ocean backdrop.

Now, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination - its history, its meaning and its cultural significance - told through the lens of the artists and creators who sought refuge on its shores. Together, figures as divergent as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Carson McCullers, Frank O'Hara, Patricia Highsmith and Jeremy O. Harris tell the story of a queer space in constant evolution.

Transporting, impeccably researched and gorgeously written, Fire Island is the definitive book on an iconic American destination and an essential contribution to queer history.

#lgbtqia history #nonfiction #nonfiction books #reading recommendations #reading recs #book recommendations #book recs #library books #tbr #tbr pile #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory