Tonguebreaker

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Poetry, BIPOC, Asian Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature

Finalist, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class ...

The Walking Boy

By Lydia Kwa
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Lesbian Literature, Fiction

The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi ...

Care Work

By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Categories: Disability Literature, Social Issues, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature

Finalist, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah ...

The Woo-Woo

By Lindsay Wong
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Social Issues, Biography & Memoir

2019 CANADA READS FINALIST

Shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust of Canada Prize for Nonfiction; Winner, Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize; Longlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour

In ...

Chinatown Ghosts

By Jim Wong-Chu
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Photography, Poetry

Jim Wong-Chu is a legend in the Asian Canadian writing community. As founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop (and its magazine Ricepaper), he constantly encouraged and inspired writers across ...

The Tiger Flu

By Larissa Lai
Categories: Fiction, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award

In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai -- her first in sixteen years -- a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by patriarchal and corporate Salt Water City, go ...

The Antifa Comic Book

By Gord Hill
Foreword by Mark Bray
Categories: Politics, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, History, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature, Social Issues

The shocking images of neo-Nazis marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the summer of 2017 linger, but so do those of the passionate anti-fascist protestors who risked their lives to do the right thing. ...

Jonny Appleseed

By Joshua Whitehead
Categories: Fiction, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Youth Culture, BIPOC, Indigenous Literature

2021 CANADA READS WINNER

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction

Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; ...

Manila by Night

By Joel David
Series edited by Matthew Hays & Thomas Waugh
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, BIPOC, Asian Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

A Queer Film Classic on a controversial 1980 film by queer Filipino filmmaker Ishmael Bernal.

A Queer Film Classic on Ishmael Bernal's 1980 film that follows a dozen characters, all denizens of Manila's ...

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea

Text by Kai Cheng Thom
Illustrated by Kai Yun Ching & Wai-Yant Li
Categories: Children's & Young Adult, Children's, BIPOC, Asian Literature

A magical gender variant child brings transformation and change to the world around them thanks to their mother's enduring love.

In the magical time between night and day, when both the sun and the moon ...