Amelia Abraham - We Can Do Better Than This: 35 Voices on the Future of LGBTQ+ Rights

Edited by Amelia Abraham

Designing for the crackdown, The Verge, 25 April 2018

; Isobel Dickinson, Sick killer Huntleys wig stunt, Daily Star Sunday, 8 April 2018

; Ed West, The transgender taboo is a threat to academic freedom, Daily Telegraph, 24 January 2012

Richard Littlejohn, Hes not only in the wrong body hes in the wrong job, Daily Mail, 20 December 2012

Julie Burchill, Transsexuals should cut it out, Observer, 12 January 2013

; Janice Turner, Children sacrificed to appease trans lobby, The Times, 11 November 2017

Levin, Chalabi and Siddiqui, Why we take issue with the Guardians stance on trans rights in the UK, Guardian, 2 November 2018

Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girls Confabulous Memoir (Montreal: Metonymy Press, 2016)

Ibid.

Ibid.

LGBT in Britain: hate crime and discrimination, Stonewall, 2017

Statement of James Baldwin, in Hearing Before the Select Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Education and Labor. House of Representatives Ninetieth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 12962: A Bill for the Establishment of a Commission on Negro History and Culture (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1968)

Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York City: Continuum Publishing Company, 1993)

James Baldwin, A Talk to Teachers, James Baldwin: Collected Essays (New York City: Library of America, 1998), p. 685

Audre Lorde, Learning from the 60s, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007), p. 117

The struggle continues!

Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York City: NYU Press, 2005)

Names have been changed.

Ableism is the discrimination of disabled people in favour of able-bodied folks and is a system of actions, language and implications that undermines disabled people.

I use the word crippled as a disabled man, as a form of reclamation for myself. Others who are not disabled should not use it without a disabled persons permission.

Details have been changed.

Captivating We Can Do Better Than This digs deep to present a candid commentary on the LGBTQ+ communitys ongoing issues and delivers hopeful, thoughtful solutions. Simply put, its a must-read

Gay Times, Books of the Year

Moving, personal and political This is a book that aims to break down prejudices and understand the root problems and how to solve them

Stylist

Thoughtful and thought-provoking It is an education in why the concept of pride remains not only relevant but critical

Mohsin Zaidi, author of A Dutiful Boy

Tackles questions around the true meaning of equality and how we get there

Vogue

It poses a simple but essential question: how can we create a better world for our LGBTQ+ family? Urgent and vital

Attitude

Amelia Abraham has switched on every light in the queer village, illuminating the still-not-visible and giving space to many, important, intersectional voices

Paul Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk

An atlas charting global disparities but also interconnectedness, an expedition over the rainbow, a friendly and fierce survey of this critical juncture

Jeremy Atherton Lin, author of Gay Bar

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LGBTQ+ has been used throughout this book as a shorthand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and other identity categories like intersex and asexual. When speaking about a specific subsection of the LGBTQ+ community, writers have referred to that group directly. Queer is mostly used as an umbrella term for the various identities that fall under the LGBTQ+ banner, but of course, queer means different things to different people I hope those meanings become clear in context.

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