Kate Bornestein—gender theorist, performance artist, and author—is set to change lives with her compelling memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger. Wickedly funny and disarmingly honest, this is Bornstein’s most intimate book yet, encompassing her early childhood and adolescence, college at Brown, a life in the theater, three marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transexual life, LGBTQ politcs, and life on the road as a sought-after speaker.

Matt Kailey lived as a straight woman for the first forty-two years of his life. Though happy as a social worker and teacher, he knew something wasn’t right. Then he made some changes. With the help of a good therapist, chest surgery, and some strong doses of testosterone, Kailey began his journey toward becoming a man. Funny, fresh, and incredibly candid, Just Add Hormones can help us all consider—and even laugh at—our own notions of what it means to be a man or a woman.

When Nina Krieger lands in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood, her roommates introduce her to a whole new world, full of people who identify as queer, who modify their bodies and blur the line between woman and man, who defy everything Nina thought she knew about gender and identity. Before long, she is forging a path that is neither man nor woman, here nor there. The next-generation Stone Butch Blues, Nina Here Nor There is a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.