Should I be upfront with someone I'm interested in that I'm ace or aro? How do I get people to respect my boundaries around intimacy? What if I don't want intimacy at all? It is selfish to pursue a relationship if I don't want romance? These questions are not only a source of deep anxiety and frustration for ace and aro people - but limit the ......
Finances, Childrearing, and Other Practical Concerns of Polyamory
More and more queer and not-so-queer partners are taking the plunge and deciding to live and parent together. But wait - who lives with who? How do you navigate parenting children? How do you set up your home/finances/bathrooms? Laura Boyle, having interviewed over four hundred people living in every polyamorous configuration under the sun - ......
Stories for Grandparents of Transgender Grandchildren
Be Love. Be Patience. Be Curiosity. Be Approachable. Be Supported. Being a grandparent to a trans child can feel isolating. Generational differences can make it challenging for you to understand what they're going through, and you might not have the vocabulary to discuss it with them, or have found peers who are experiencing something similar. At ......
A Guidebook for Lgbtqia+ People and Those with a Different Label or No L
This guidebook is designed to increase readers' social resilience, assertiveness, and competence in responding to minority stress. Readers will understand how to embody a compassionate power in relationships when confronted by discrimination, rejection, and conflicts. We hope these ideas and skills help readers empower themselves and others to ......
A Guidebook for Lgbtqia+ People and Those with a Different Label or No L
This guidebook is designed to increase readers' social resilience, assertiveness, and competence in responding to minority stress. Readers will understand how to embody a compassionate power in relationships when confronted by discrimination, rejection, and conflicts. We hope these ideas and skills help readers empower themselves and others to ......
Your Q&A Guide to Coming Out, Dating, Parenting and Beyond
My partner doesnt believe Im bisexual, what should I do? How should I approach sex with someone of a different gender for the first time? Can I reconcile being bisexual with wanting a biological child? Identifying as bisexual can be a pretty confusing experience - navigating experimentation versus orientation, at times presenting as a ......
A powerful book for readers aiming to support trans youth that Booklist calls a "warm and generous book [that] will help a wide range of readers" and Publishers Weekly says is "a pragmatic program for parenting beyond the gender ......
'Bisexuality allows for so many ways to desire and to express that desire. Plurality is at the heart of bisexuality' The bisexual experience is, by necessity, incredibly diverse - we are likely to be attracted to different genders, form part of multiple marginalised groups, and be perceived (depending on the gender of our partner) in wildly ......
A Guidebook for Lgbtqia+ People and Those with a Different Label or No L
This guidebook is designed to increase readers' personal resilience, self-acceptance, and growth from minority stress. Readers will be encouraged to clarify their beliefs and improve their relationship with themselves. Conflicts can be resolved as readers develop knowledge of themselves and others and consider resilient ways of experiencing ......
A Guidebook for Lgbtqia+ People and Those with a Different Label or No L
This guidebook is designed to increase readers' personal resilience, self-acceptance, and growth from minority stress. Readers will be encouraged to clarify their beliefs and improve their relationship with themselves. Conflicts can be resolved as readers develop knowledge of themselves and others and consider resilient ways of experiencing ......
Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being
Romantic relationships and health are fundamental for society, but what happens to a person's well-being when he or she chooses the "wrong" partner? Interracial Romance and Health: Bridging Generations, Race Relations, and Well-Being tackles this growing public health issue, which impacts millions of people in interracial relationships, especially ......
A lesbian self-help guide with chapters on coming out, enjoying a healthy sex life, navigating your sexuality in the workplace, building a queer community, and managing toxic positivity in LGBT+ spaces.
How to Have Honest Conversations With Young Children
Serves as a guide for parents with children from infancy through six years of age, to help parents recognize how their behaviour influences their child's sexuality. The goal of Sex Ed, Strollers, and Sippy Cups is to give parents practical tools to proactively teach young children about sexuality, and the confidence to use these tools.
Explores the wide range of gender confirmation surgeries available to trans and non-binary adults, with anatomical illustrations, personal stories, tips and advice, and a directory of further resources.
A guide to aromanticism, with chapters on microlabels, different forms of love and partnership and the split attraction model, as well as advice on how to manage your mental health as an aro person, and dealing with arophobia.
This unflinchingly honest memoir shines new light on the complex intersections of gender identity, sexuality, sex and queerness. Join Harry on his personal journey amongst the fraught and contradictory worlds of contemporary gay culture and re-examine the unique patterns of your own queerness along the way