a pre-2025 holiday reading list for tender hearts & critical minds

the well of loneliness

Radclyffe Hall, 1928

the mass psychology of fascism

Wilhelm Reich, 1933

escape from freedom

Erich Fromm, 1941

society of the spectacle

Guy Debord, 1967

uses of the erotic: the erotic as power

Audre Lorde, 1978

powers of horror: an essay on abjection

Julia Kristeva, 1980

lesbian poetry: an anthology

Elly Bulkin & Joan Larkin et al., 1981

sinister wisdom 48: lesbian resistance

Dykewoman et al., 1992

a user’s guide to capitalism and schizophrenia: deviations from deleuze and guattari

Brian Massumi, 1992

stone butch blues

Leslie Feinberg, 1993

homos

Leo Bersani, 1995

caliban and the witch: women, the body, and primitive accumulation

Silvia Federici, 2004

trans liberation: beyond pink or blue

Leslie Feinberg, 2008

transgender history

Susan Stryker, 2008

the other side

Nan Goldin, 2019

god made my face: a portrait of james baldwin

Hilton Als, 2024