Special Topics in Being a Human

By S. Bear Bergman
Illustrated by Saul Freedman-Lawson
Categories: LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction

S. Bear Bergman's illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens.

As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, ...

Shut Up You're Pretty

By Tea Mutonji
Categories: Women's Literature, BIPOC, Black Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Fiction
Series: VS. Books

CANADA READS RUNNER-UP, 2024

Winner, Trillium Book Award and Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

In Tea ...

Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971

By Stan Douglas
Contributions by Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter, Serge Guilbaut, Sven Lutticken, and Jesse Proudfoot
Categories: Social Issues, BIPOC, Black Literature, Politics, History, British Columbia, Visual Arts, Photography, Cultural Studies

Stan Douglas: Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971, an art book on the politics of urban conflict, is based on the work of Stan Douglas, one of Canada's most revered contemporary artists. His film and video ...

Scorpio Rising

By R.L. Cagle
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Film & Media
Series: Queer Film Classics

Finalist, Lambda Literary Award

The final book in the Queer Film Classics series is R. L. Cagle's take on Scorpio Rising (1963), Kenneth Anger's avant-garde short film that about gay Nazi bikers preparing ...

Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings

Edited by Reid Shier
By Stan Douglas
Categories: Visual Arts, History, British Columbia, Cultural Studies, Photography, Social Issues

The 100 block of Vancouver's West Hastings Street is the gateway to one of the most contested and controversial inner-city neighborhoods in North America--Vancouver's infamous and impoverished downtown ...

Sodom Road Exit

By Amber Dawn
Categories: Fiction, Women's Literature, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

Lambda Literary Award and Sunburst Award finalist; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving ...

Stoney Creek Woman

By Bridget Moran
Categories: Women's Literature, Canada, British Columbia, Biography & Memoir

The captivating story of Mary John (who passed away in 2004), a pioneering Carrier Native whose life on the Stoney Creek reserve in central BC is a capsule history of First Nations life from a unique ...

Scarborough

By Catherine Hernandez
Categories: BIPOC, Asian Literature, Youth Culture, Fiction, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature

SHORTLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2022

NOW A MOTION PICTURE directed by Shasha Nakhai and Rich Williamson; screenplay by Catherine Hernandez

Trillium Book Award and City of Toronto Book Award finalist; Edmund ...

Swollening

By Jason Purcell
Categories: Health, Disability Literature, Poetry, LGBTQ+, Gay Literature

A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope.

Jason Purcell's debut collection of poems rests at the intersection ...

Special Topics in Being a Parent

By S. Bear Bergman
Illustrated by Saul Freedman-Lawson
Categories: Graphic Novels & Non-Fiction, LGBTQ+, Trans Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature

An illustrated guide of practical parenting advice informed by queer experiences for anyone parenting outside the mainstream, from the author and illustrator of Special Topics in Being a Human

Being a ...