For the books listed below, we’ve provided links to various online retailers to give you all the information you might need to buy local! For example, Venus Envy can order in any of these titles on request.
Sexuality/Sexual Orientation
Nonmonogamy
Racial Trauma and Race
- Healing Racial Trauma
- My Grandmother’s Hands
- So You Want to Talk About Race
- Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race
- The Racial Healing Handbook
- This Bridge Called My Back
- Me and White Supremacy
Sex
- Sexplanations YouTube channel
- Come As You Are
- Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure, and Relationships
- Magnificent Sex
- Better Sex Through Mindfulness
- Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality
- Becoming Orgasmic
- Love Worth Making
- The Sex Lives of African Women
- Because it Feels Good
- Sex Made Easy
- The Joy of Sex
- The New Male Sexuality
- When Sex Hurts
- Healing Painful Sex
Gender
- Gender Queer
- Free Zines by Alex Iantaffi (including one exploring SCT – a new theory to map out gender and sexuality)
- Life Isn’t Binary
- How To Understand Your Gender
- Gender Reveal Podcast
- This YouTube Series is to help family members learn about trans terms and common issues
- Resource Guide for Family Members
- The Gender Creative Child
Trauma
- What My Bones Know
- The Body Keeps the Score
- The Wisdom of Your Body
- Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation
- Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma
- Will I Ever Be Good Enough?
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Chronic Pain/Illness
- What Doesn’t Kill You
- Pain Woman Takes Your Keys
- My Stroke of Insight
- The Invisible Kingdom
- Noigroup
- Pain Care for Life
Eating Disorders/Anti-Fat Bias/Fat Liberation
- Maintenance Phase podcast
- What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat
- The Body Is Not An Apology
- Fearing the Black Body
- The Belly of the Beast
- Embodiment and Eating Disorders
- Intuitive Eating – a workbook
- Overcoming Bulimia – a workbook
- Rainbow Reflections (a comic book about body image and queer men)
- Queering Nutrition & Dietetics
- FEDUP: Fighting Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Populations: A Trans+ & Intersex Collective
- Wicked Bodies
- Safe, Seen, Supported: Research findings from a qualitative MSVU study about eating disorder recovery
Queer and Trans Therapists of Nova Scotia (QTTNS) 