Catalog
Books, games, and the stuff that goes with them — curated by the Rainbow Crow community and the team behind it. At the top of this page are our main picks this week. Find the full curated catalog below. Scroll down, browse around, find something you like, then come talk about it with us!
This week's picks
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
A cartoonist examines her complicated bond with her mother through psychoanalytic theory and Virginia Woolf.
Beyond the Gender Binary
BooksALOK
A short, sharp essay dismantling the gender binary and imagining past it.
Cemetery Boys
BooksAiden Thomas
A trans boy determined to prove himself as a brujo accidentally summons the wrong ghost — and falls for him instead.
Exile and Pride
BooksEli Clare
A landmark memoir-essay collection on disability, queerness, class, and the body — foundational disability justice writing.
Fat and Queer
BooksMiguel M. Morales (ed.)
An anthology centering fat queer and trans bodies and lives, in essay, poetry, and memoir.
Felix Ever After
BooksKacen Callender
A Black trans teen navigates first love, identity, and a cruel act of transphobia aimed straight at him.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
A cartoonist’s memoir of her closeted father, her own coming out, and the funeral home they called ’the fun home.’
Gideon the Ninth
BooksTamsyn Muir
Lesbian necromancers in space, sword-fighting their way through a haunted gothic palace. Exactly as fun as that sounds.
Hijab Butch Blues
BooksLamya H.
A queer, Muslim memoir that reads the Quran’s stories alongside a life spent between identities that weren’t supposed to fit together.
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity
BooksMicah Rajunov (ed.)
An anthology of nonbinary writers on gender outside the binary, in their own words.
She Who Became the Sun
BooksShelley Parker-Chan
A peasant girl steals her dead brother’s identity and his fate: greatness. A queer reimagining of the rise of the Ming Dynasty.
Some Girls Do
BooksJennifer Dugan
A closeted beauty queen and an out-and-proud track star fall for each other despite everything working against it.
Spent: A Comic Novel
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
Bechdel writes herself into fiction alongside characters from Dykes to Watch Out For, decades later, in small-town Vermont.
Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
BooksAlexis Pauline Gumbs
A poetic, genre-defying meditation built from the archive of Black feminist thinker Hortense Spillers.
The Black Flamingo
BooksDean Atta
A mixed-race, queer teen finds himself through drag in this verse novel about claiming space to be fully seen.
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
Decades of Bechdel’s beloved, cult-favorite comic strip chronicling a circle of lesbian friends, collected in one volume.
The Left Hand of Darkness
BooksUrsula K. Le Guin
An envoy is sent to a world where people have no fixed gender. A foundational work of feminist and queer science fiction.
The Prophets
BooksRobert Jones Jr.
A tender, devastating love story between two enslaved men on a Deep South plantation.
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Graphic NovelsAlison Bechdel
A memoir of the author’s lifelong string of fitness obsessions — and what she was really chasing the whole time.
Transgender History
BooksSusan Stryker
A foundational overview of transgender history and politics in the United States.
Undoing Monogamy
BooksAngela Willey
A critique of how monogamy gets naturalized through biology and science — and what gets left out of that story.
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals
BooksAlexis Pauline Gumbs
What whales, dolphins, and manatees can teach us about survival, care, and collective liberation.