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TIE Preview of Upcoming Reads in Queer Studies, 2025
Posted on May 30, 2025 in Upcoming Reads
Ahead of Pride Month, TIE‘s latest preview of upcoming reads features forthcoming titles in queer studies. This iteration also marks one year since we first launched our upcoming reads feature. With LGBTQ+ rights and communities increasingly under attack, including efforts to restrict access to inclusive materials in libraries, the need for resources that deepen understanding, affirm diverse identities, and resist erasure is more pressing than ever. This list serves not only as a tool for collection development but also as a testament to the dynamism, resilience, and creativity of queer studies.
Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants against the Deportation State, by Eithne Luibhéid. Duke, May 2025e. ISBN 9781478028024 $102.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031239 $26.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060260 $102.95e
Achy Affects: Crisis and Compositions of Selfhood, by CE Mackenzie. Pittsburgh, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780822948568 $55.00
Affirmative Approach to Counseling Transgender Individuals Pursuing Gender Transition, by Varunee Faii Sangganjanavanich. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781538136515 $89.00; pbk ISBN 9781538136522 $35.00
The African Perspective of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Higher Education, ed. by Mfundo Mandla Masuku and Mbongeni Shadrack Sithole. Palgrave Macmillan, May 2025e. ISBN 9783031876882 $179.99e; ebook ISBN 9783031876899 price not yet set
AIDS in the Heartland: How Unlikely Coalitions Created a Blueprint for LGBTQ Politics, by Katie Batza. North Carolina, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781469690483 $99.00; pbk ISBN 9781469690490 $24.95; ebook ISBN 9781469690506 $19.99
Antigender Fashion: The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design, by Judith Beyer. Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2025. ISBN 9781350466005 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9781350466043 $34.95
As If! Queer Criticism Across Difference, by Chase Gregory. Duke, Aug. 2025e. ISBN 9781478028895 $103.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478032120 $25.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478061113 $103.95e
The B-52s’ Cosmic Thing, by Pete Crighton. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2025. pbk ISBN 9798765133125 $14.95; ebook ISBN 9798765133156 $13.45
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set Out to Change the World, by Jane Cholmeley. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9798881806217 $34.00
Boys Abducted: The Homoerotics of Empire and Race in Early Modernity, by Abdulhamit Arvas. Duke, May 2025e. ISBN 9781478028413 $104.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031581 $27.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478028413 $104.95e
By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates, by Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer. Columbia, Jul. 2025. ISBN 9780231202220 $140.00; pbk ISBN 9780231202237 $35.00; ebook ISBN 9780231554459 $34.99.00
DanceSport’s Economy of Desire: A Queer-Feminist Perspective, by Val Meneau. Bloomsbury Publishing, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781350531680 $115.00; ebook ISBN 9781350531697 $103.5.00
Dancing Opacity: Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal, by Amy E. Swanson. Michigan, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9780472077663 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9780472057665 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9780472905256 price not yet set
Drag Vistas and Visions: Drag in a Changing Scene, ed. by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier. Vol. 3. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2025. ISBN 9781350373525 $120.00; ebook ISBN 9781350373556 $108.00
For a Spell: Sissie Collectivism and Radical Witchery in the Southeast, by Jason Ezell. North Carolina, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781469690438 $99.00; pbk ISBN 9781469690445 $29.95; ebook ISBN 9781469683089 $22.99
From Vice to Nice: Midwestern Politics and the Gentrification of AIDS, by René Esparza. North Carolina, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781469690384 $99.00; pbk ISBN 9781469690391 $32.95; ebook ISBN 9781469683225 $27.99
Hermaphrodite Logic: A History of Intersex Liberation, by Juliana Gleeson. Verso, Jun. 2025. pbk ISBN 9781839760938 $24.95; ebook ISBN 9781839760952 $9.99
Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art, by Leslie Winston. Michigan, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9780472077762 $70.00; pbk ISBN 9780472057764 $24.95; ebook ISBN 9780472905355 $24.95
Letters from a Living Utopia, by Yaffa AS. Common Notions Press, Aug. 2025e. pbk ISBN 9781945335303 $18.00
LGBTQI+ Persecution during the Holocaust: An Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Perseverance, by Alexis Herr. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9798216169758 $130.00; ebook ISBN 9798765111932 $117.00
Living On After Failure: Affective Structures of Modern Life, by Irving Goh. Duke, Sep. 2025e. ISBN 9781478028994 $103.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478032243 $25.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478061205 $103.95e
Love: The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality, by Frankie Frankeny. Rizzoli International Publications, May 2025. ISBN 9780847847914 $55.00
Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922–1972, by Averill Earls. Temple, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781439924150 $115.50; pbk ISBN 9781439924167 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9781439924174 $34.95
Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color, by Uri McMillan. Duke, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781478029168 $125.00e; pbk ISBN 9781478032519 $34.00e; ebook ISBN 9781478061373 $125.00e
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays, ed. by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller. Vol. 2. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781350458086 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9781350458093 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9781350458109 $31.45
New and Decolonial Approaches to Gender Nonconformity: Forging A Home For Ourselves, ed. by Kit Heyam and Jonathan Ward. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781350419568 $115.00
Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence, by KJ Cerankowski. Minnesota, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781517916428 $88.00; pbk ISBN 9781517916435 $21.95; ebook ISBN 9781452973784 $21.95
The Palgrave Handbook of Queer and Trans Studies in Religion, ed. by Melissa M. Wilcox. Palgrave Macmillan, Jun. 2025e. ISBN 9783031882555 price not yet set
Polarising Sexualities and Genders: Divisions, Differences and LGBTQIA+ Equalities, ed. by Kath Browne and Emily Kazyak. Bloomsbury Publishing, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781350449862 $90.00; pbk ISBN 9781350449855 $29.95
Queer and Trans Fashion Brands: Resistance and Revolution in the 21st Century, by Kelly Reddy-Best. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781350465886 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9781350465879 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9781350465909 $31.45
Queer Emergent: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru, by Justin Perez. Duke, May 2025e. ISBN 9781478028574 $104.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031802 $27.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060888 $104.95
Queer Genealogies in Dominican Literature and Culture, by Maja Horn. Florida, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781683405498 $110.00; pbk ISBN 9781683405542 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781683405641 $30.00
Queer Generations: LGBTQ Growing Up, Belonging and Sexual Citizenship, by Daniel Marshall et al. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2025. ISBN 9781350257283 $115.00
Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying, ed. by Elizabethe Payne and Melissa J. Smith. Minnesota, Oct. 2025. ISBN 9781517917159 $140.00; pbk ISBN 9781517917166 $35.00; ebook ISBN 9781452974453 $35.00
Queer Musicals: Boy Meets Boy to Jagged Little Pill, by Robert W. Schneider. Bloomsbury Publishing, Sep. 2025. ISBN 9781350506480 $61.00; pbk ISBN 9781350506473 $19.95; ebook ISBN 9781350506497 $17.95
The Queer Politics of Pride: Global LGBTQ+ Activism and Homocapitalism, by Daniel Conway. Bloomsbury Publishing, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9781350402270 $90.00; pbk ISBN 9781350402263 $29.95; ebook ISBN 9781350402287 $26.95
Queer Relajo: Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad, by David Tenorio. Michigan, Aug. 2025. ISBN 9780472077601 $115.00; pbk ISBN 9780472057603 $39.95; ebook ISBN 9780472905188 price not yet set
Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade, by Tyburczy, Jennifer. Duke, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781478028963 $125.00e; pbk ISBN 9781478032236 $34.00e; ebook ISBN 9781478061182 $125.00e
Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945, by Richard Quang-Anh Tran. Stanford, May 2025. ISBN 9781503615380 $110.00; pbk ISBN 9781503642744 $28.00; ebook ISBN 9781503642751 $28.00
Queering Disasters, Climate Change and Humanitarian Crises, ed. by Dale Dominey-Howes et al. Palgrave Macmillan, May 2025e. ISBN 9789819638567 $179.99; ebook ISBN 9789819638574 price not yet set
Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion, by Kevin Guyan. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781350429680 $27.00; ebook ISBN 9781350429697 $24.30
Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Disability, Sex, and Race in Eastern Europe, by Katerina Kolárová. Michigan, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9780472077434 $100.00; pbk ISBN 9780472057436 $34.95; ebook ISBN 9780472905027 price not yet set
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures, by Agata Szczeszak-Brewer. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781350323339 $115.00; ebook ISBN 9781350323353 $103.50
Sex on Stage: Performing the Body Politic, ed. by Alison J Carr and Lynn Sally. Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2025. ISBN 9781350443617 $90.00; pbk ISBN 9781350443655 $29.95; ebook ISBN 9781350443624 $26.95
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness, by Michael Koresky. Bloomsbury Publishing, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781639732548 $29.99; ebook ISBN 9781639732555 $20.99
Socialist Subjectivities: Queering East Germany under Honecker, ed. by Katharine White, Scott Harrison, and Jeff Hayton. Michigan, May 2025. ISBN 9780472077366 $115.00; pbk ISBN 9780472057368 $39.95; ebook ISBN 9780472904969 price not yet set
Sodomy’s Solicitations: A Right to Queerness, by Joseph J. Fischel. Temple, Jun. 2025. ISBN 9781439915844 $125.50; pbk ISBN 9781439915851 $39.95; ebook ISBN 9781439915868 $39.95
Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair, by Joseph M. Pierce. Duke, Aug. 2025e. ISBN 9781478028888 $125.00e; pbk ISBN 9781478032151 $34.00e; ebook ISBN 9781478061090 $125.00e
Spoiled: Asian American Hostility and the Damage of Repair, by Summer Kim Lee. Duke, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781478028833 $125.00e; pbk ISBN 9781478032052 $34.00e; ebook ISBN 9781478061007 $125.00e
Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture, by Addie Tsai. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2025. ISBN 9781350443563 $115.00; pbk ISBN 9781350443570 $39.95; ebook ISBN 9781350443594 $103.50
Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell, by Joel Mayward. Bloomsbury Publishing, Nov. 2025. ISBN 9798765132760 $14.95; ebook ISBN 9798765132777 $13.45
Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art, by Bimbola Akinbola. Duke, Oct. 2025e. ISBN 9781478029199 $103.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478032533 $25.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478061410 $103.95e
Transgender Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Developmental, Clinical and Cultural Issues, by Gabriel Ruiz. Bloomsbury Publishing, Aug. 2025. ISBN 9781538138267 $95.00; pbk ISBN 9781538150504 $35.00; ebook ISBN 9781538138274 $31.50
Ungendering Menstruation, by Ela Przybyło. Minnesota, May 2025. pbk ISBN 9781517918378 $10.00; ebook ISBN 9781452972145 $4.95
Unlocking the Red Closet: Gay Male Sex Workers in China, by Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang. New York University, Jul. 2025. ISBN 9781479821174 $89.00; pbk ISBN 9781479821228 $30.00; ebook ISBN 9781479821235 $30.00
Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone, by Alvin K. Wong. Duke, May 2025e. ISBN 9781478028673 $99.95e; pbk ISBN 9781478031895 $25.95e; ebook ISBN 9781478060888 $99.95e
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