2013 was a good year for LGBT-themed non-fiction. Julia Serano's second book, Excluded , was published in October, and given feminism's ongoing problems with intersectionality, was sorely needed. Shiri Eisner's Bi: Note For a Bisexual Revolution is another book I highly recommend. She addresses the problem --from straight society as well as the LGBT community -- of bi erasure, and discusses some of the most common misconceptions about bisexuality. It might be a little 101 for some, but there really aren't that many mainstream 101-level books on bisexuality. (Not in my city's library system, at least, and that's where I get most of my books. I try to only include books here that are accessible to the non-academic.)
But by far, my favorite was Hilton Als's White Girls. I'm still not sure what to call this. It's part essay, part criticism, and part experimental fiction. It's also one of the best meditations on gender I've read in a long time.
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