Reading List for Tourmaline: Lives of a Pollinator
As part of the exhibition, Tourmaline: Lives of a Pollinator, and in celebration of the artist's newly published book, Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, we are excited to share a compiled reading list and community resources.
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Reading List
Allen, Jafari S. There’s a Disco Ball between Us: A Theory of Black Gay Life. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
Avilez, GerShun. Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Baumann, Jason, Edmund White, and New York Public Library. The Stonewall Reader. New York: Penguin Books, 2019.
Bey, Marquis. Black Trans Feminism. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.
Clare, Eli. Exile & Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Davis, Angela Y. Abolition. Feminism. Now. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2022.
Feinberg, Leslie. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Abolition Geography: Essays towards Liberation. London ; New York: Verso, 2022.
Johnson, E. Patrick, and Mae Henderson. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Keeling, Kara. Queer Times, Black Futures. New York: University Press, 2019.
McAllister, Marvin Edward. White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown’s African & American Theater. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Riemer, Matthew. We Are Everywhere: Protest, Power, and Pride in the History of Queer Liberation. California: Ten Speed Press, 2019.
Rose, Syan. Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021.
Ryan, Hugh. The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison. New York, NY: Bold Type Books, 2022.
Somerville, Siobhan B. Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Spade, Dean. Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.
Stanley, Eric A., and Nat Smith. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Oakland, CA: AK Press, 2015.
Stryker, Susan. Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution. Seal Studies. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2017
Art After Stonewall: 1969–1989 / edited by Jonathan Weinberg with Tyler Cann, Anastasia Kinigopoulo, and Drew Sawyer. By Weinberg, Jonathan. (Columbus, Ohio: New York, New York: CMOA, Columbus Museum of Art; 2019.)
Reay, Barry. Trans America: A Counter-History. Medford, MA: Polity Press, 2020.
This reading list was compiled by Alessandra Seiter, Community Engagement Librarian at Harvard Kennedy School Library & Research Services, and Jessica Evans Brady, Research & Collections Librarian at the Harvard Fine Arts Library.
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Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson (Signed by Tourmaline | Available September 30)
$30.00
Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQIA+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy. This publication is followed by the artist and author's exhibition, Tourmaline: Lives of a Pollinator at the Carpenter Center.
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