Midsumma Festival: your LGBTQIA+ reading list
The Midsumma Festival, currently underway in Melbourne, is a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community.
In anticipation of the Midsumma Pride March this weekend, we’ve carefully selected a range of LGBTQIA+ books for you to explore. The following list covers a wide array of topics, offering insights into the real-life stories and experiences within the queer community.
Available for borrowing with your Deakin card or Deakin Borrow app, these books are an invitation to delve into and celebrate the intricate tapestry of LGBTQIA+ life and culture.
Deakin academics and alumni connection
- Living and loving in diversity: an anthology of Australian multicultural queer adventures edited by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
- A feminist post-transsexual autoethnography: challenging normative gender coercion by Julie Peters
- Ida by Alison Evans
- Look who’s morphing by Tom Cho
LGBTQIA+ history
- Rainbow history class: your guide through queer and trans history by Hannah McElhinney
- Queer: a graphic history by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele
- Black on both sides: a racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton
- Transgender history: the roots of today’s revolution by Susan Stryker
- The queer art of history: queer kinship after fascism by Jennifer V. Evans
First Nations LGBTQIA+ stories
- Colouring the rainbow: black queer and trans perspectives: life stories and essays by First Nations People of Australia edited by Dino Hodge
- Personal score: sport, culture, identity by Ellen van Neerven
LGBTQIA+ fiction
- Confessions of the fox by Jordy Rosenberg
- The dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
- Detransition, baby by Torrey Peters
- Everyone in this room will someday be dead by Emily Austin
- Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- The pillars by Peter Polites
- A psalm for the wild-built by Becky Chambers
- A prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers; edited by Lee Harris
- Legends & lattes by Travis Baldree
LGBTQIA+ nonfiction
- Transgender Australia: a history since 1910 by Noah Riseman
- The two revolutions: a history of the transgender internet by Avery Dame-Griff
- Pleasure and efficacy: of pen names, cover versions, and other trans techniques by Grace E. Lavery
- Trap door: trans cultural production and the politics of visibility edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton
- Gender: a graphic guide by Meg-John Barker by Jules Scheele (available soon!)
- Before we were trans: a new history of gender by Kit Heyam
- The made-up state: technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia by Benjamin Hegarty
- All about Yves: notes from a transition by Yves Rees
- The terrible we: thinking with trans maladjustment by Cameron Awkward-Rich
- Nonbinary: memoirs of gender and identity edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane
- Gender queer: a memoir by Maia Kobabe ; colors by Phoebe Kobabe
- A real piece of work: a memoir in essays by Erin Riley