The Gender + Sexuality Library

One of our centers pillars of focus is education. Education programs and initiatives are essential to ensuring we are cultivating a climate of inclusive excellence at Princeton—one that truly affirms our queer, trans, women, and fem community members.

The Gender + Sexuality Library is just one example of how we cultivate opportunities for learning as well as identity exploration, resource sharing, and campus engagement. Most recently in the Summer of 2024, our center was able to update our library catalog with over 800+ new collection items. This work was only made possible thanks to committed efforts of our undergraduate student leaders and professional staff.

To learn more about our library catalog, please visit the following link!

We hope you are able to sign a book out of our center soon. If you have any questions about our library initiatives, please contact Alex Rosado-Torres.

Mobile Library Initiative

In an effort to engage our campus community with the resources available at the GSRC we are hosting a mobile library initiative! Our mobile library initiative is a tabling program where we highlight and share literature focusing on specific days, weeks, and months of recognition. Our education & training fellows as well as our undergraduate interns can be found tabling somewhere around campus raffling off books and sharing resources about gender + sexuality.

Make sure to visit us at one of our Fall 2024 tablings to enter a raffle for one of the books being showcased:

  • Banned Books & Latine Heritage Month, 9/27, 2-5pm

  • LGBTQIA+ History Month & Ace/Aro Spectrums, 10/21, 2-5pm

  • Native American Heritage Month & Trans Visibility, 11/22, 2-5pm

  • Multi-sexual Spectrum & HIV/AIDS Awareness, 12/12, 2-5pm

Stay tuned for our Spring 2025 tabling dates by the December 2024!

Banned Books Week Highlights

September 22-28 is Banned Books Week, celebrating the freedom of information despite attempts to censor and restrict knowledge access. Celebrate by reading one of these books commonly banned for their LGBTQIA+ content!

  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

  • All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

  • I am Jazz by Jessica Hershel & Jazz Jennings

  • Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

  • And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

  • Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

LGBTQIA+ History Month Highlights

October is LGBTQIA+ History Month, honoring the history of the LGBTQIA+ civil rights movement and the experiences of queer/trans people throughout history. Celebrate by reading one of these historical and history-focused books!

  • Queer Newark: Stories of Resistance, Love, and Community edited by Whitney Strub

  • A Queer History of the United States (for Young People) by Michael Bronski

  • Stitch by Stitch: Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt by Rob Sanders

  • Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion by Eleanor Medhurst

  • Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin

  • Love Letters: Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West introduction by Alison Bechdel

Native American Heritage Month Highlights

November is Native American Heritage Month which honors Native American history, present-day culture, and ongoing political struggles. Celebrate by picking up one of these books by/about 2SLGBTQIA+ Native American people!

  • Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

  • Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America by Gregory D. Smithers

  • Not Vanishing by Chrystos

  • Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón

  • A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

  • Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead

Latine Heritage Month Highlights

September 15th - October 15th is Latine Heritage Month, celebrating the history, culture, and contributions of the Latine community. Celebrate by checking out one of these books by/about LGBTQIA+ Latinx people!

  • The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sondra Reyes

  • Ander & Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa

  • In the Shadows of the Freeway: Growing Up Brown & Queer by Lydia R. Otero

  • Born Both: An Intersex Life by Hida Viloria

  • Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda

  • Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera

Ace & Ar0 Spectrums Highlights

October 20-26 is Asexual Awareness Week, and Aromantic Awareness Week is February 16-22. Celebrate by reading these books by/about asexual and/or aromantic folks!

  • Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

  • The Bone People by Keri Hulme

  • Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

  • Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

  • Ace and Aro Journeys: A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity by The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project

  • It’s Always Been You by Elin Annalise

Trans Awareness Month Highlights

November is Trans Awareness Month and November 20 is Trans Day of Remembrance, which together honor the lives and experience of our trans community members past and present. Celebrate by picking up one of these books by/about trans people.

  • All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran

  • Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker

  • The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

  • Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

  • Trans Bodies, Trans Selves edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth

  • Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham