Locate books with these subjects and call numbers James C. Kirkpatrick Library in the 3rd Floor Stacks or in our Online Resources.
Gender Studies, including Gender Identity and Dysphoria
- HQ 1075
- HQ 73 - HQ 78
Sexual Orientation
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HQ 73 - HQ 76.98
Asexual
- HQ 18 .U5 B766
- HQ 21 .C456
Transgender Identity
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HQ 77.7 - HQ 77.95
Non-Binary and Gender Fluid Identity
- HQ 18.55
- HQ73 - HQ 77.9
Intersex
- RC 883
- HQ 75.15
- HQ 77.9 - HQ 78
- QP 267
- PS 3607
Two-Spirit
- E98.R45
- E98.S48
Campus Resources
Safe Zone Project
Safe Zone workshops at UCM offer information on LGBTQIA+ identities, terminology, ally development, and ways to support LGBTQIA+ students on our campus, and are based on the national Safe Zone Project model. Anyone in the UCM community can attend a Safe Zone workshop and become a Safe Zone ally, including staff, faculty, graduate assistants, and students. We hope that community members of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions will participate!
UCM Prism
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and intersex (LGBTQQIA) community and straight allies bring advocacy and education to the UCM campus. We help develop and meet the social needs of diverse students by hosting social and educational programming at weekly meetings and special events. The Center for Multiculturalism and Inclusivity on the 3rd Floor of the Elliot Student Union also houses the Lavender Lounge, where students can find books written by LGBTQ+ authors. Meetings of the organization are held every Wednesday in Union Auditorium at 6:30pm.
Care to Act
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As part of the UCM Office of Health Promotion, the Care To Act approach supports each campus community member in making a positive difference on our campus in these four areas:
These concerns affect the well-being and safety of everyone. |
How does the Care to Act program work?
Care To Act includes these primary components:
- Overview for students: the online
overview course - Conversations that build community: facilitated, in-person group conversations that focus on how to be engaged and caring community members
- Network creation and expansion: purposeful connection with existing campus programs and services that support and promote a community of care
For more information, contact Tori Wilson, Care To Act Coordinator, at towlison@ucmo.edu.
Student Organizations
UCM Prism
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, asexual, and intersex (LGBTQQIA) community and straight allies bring advocacy and education to the UCM campus. We help develop and meet the social needs of diverse students by hosting social and educational programming at weekly meetings and special events.
Collection Highlights
Transgender History, Second Edition by Call Number: HQ77.9 .S77 2017ISBN: 9781580056892Publication Date: 2017-11-07Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-'70s to 1990, the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the '90s and '00s. Transgender History includes informative sidebars highlighting quotes from major texts and speeches in transgender history and brief biographies of key players, plus excerpts from transgender memoirs and discussion of treatments of transgenderism in popular culture.
Gay Press, Gay Power: the Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America by Call Number: HQ76.95.U5 G39 2012ISBN: 9781480080522Publication Date: 2012-11-24This book provides an overview of the history of LGBT community newspapers and magazines in America. It provides a specific focus on weekly and biweekly newspapers, but also assesses the LGBT state of print media overall.Finalist for the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards; Top 10 selection for the American Library Association Over the Rainbow Project Book List, a committee of the GLBT Round Table of the ALA.
Gender Queer: a Memoir Deluxe Edition by ISBN: 9781637150726Publication Date: 2022-07-052020 ALA Alex Award Winner 2020 Stonewall -- Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Then e created Gender Queer. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fan fiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: It is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere. This special deluxe hardcover edition of Gender Queer features a brand-new cover, exclusive art and sketches, a foreword from ND Stevenson, Lumberjanes writer and creator of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and an afterword from Maia Kobabe.
A Quick and Easy Guide to Queer and Trans Identities by Call Number: JE 306.76 M2679qu 2019ISBN: 9781620105863Publication Date: 2019-04-23A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys! In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and Jules Zuckerberg guide you through the basics of the LGBT+ world! Covering essential topics like sexuality, gender identity, coming out, and navigating relationships, this guide explains the spectrum of human experience through informative comics, interviews, worksheets, and imaginative examples. A great starting point for anyone curious about queer and trans life, and helpful for those already on their own journeys! And don't miss A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson!
Not straight, not white: black gay men from the march on Washington to the AIDS crisis by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 9781469628073Publication Date: 2016This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism--helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality.
Fun Home by Call Number: PN6727 .B3757 Z46 2006ISBN: 9780618477944Publication Date: 2006-06-08A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
A Two-Spirit Journey by Call Number: E-bookISBN: 0887555055Publication Date: 2016-05-03A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery."A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counsellor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay.Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.
