Shortlisted for the Ontario Legislative Assembly Speaker's Book Award, Marvellous Grounds is the first collection of its kind to feature the art, activism, and writings of QTBIPOC in Toronto—stories that have shaped Toronto’s landscape but are frequently forgotten or erased.

Catherine Hernandez, author of the novel Scarborough, called the book "forever [a] part of our beautiful, complicated, complex connective tissue. This is essential reading for conversations around QTBIPOC organizing, resistance and resilience strategies. It is a testament to an often-ignored history; a celebration of the often-misunderstood."

Kidnapped by his father on the eve of Somalia’s societal implosion, Mohamed Ali was taken first to the Netherlands by his stepmother, and then later on to Canada. Unmoored from his birth family and caught between twin alienating forces of Somali tradition and Western culture, Mohamed must forge his own queer coming of age. Author Diriye Osman called it “a stunning memoir that will resonate with every queer person who has been through the fire."

Missing from the Village tells the complete story of the Bruce McArthur murders. Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting from Justin Ling, this is also a story of police failure, of how the queer community responded, and the story of the eight men who went missing and the lives they left behind.

Toronto is home to multiple and thriving queer communities that reflect the dynamism of a global city. Any Other Way is an eclectic and richly illustrated local history that reveals how these individuals and community networks have transformed Toronto from a place of churches and conservative mores into a city that has consistently led the way in queer activism, not just in Canada but internationally.

How did a social movement evolve from a small group of young radicals to the incorporation of LGBTQ communities into full citizenship on the model of Canadian multiculturalism? In Queer Progress, Tim McCaskill tries to make sense of this transformation by narrating the complexities and contradictions of forty years of queer politics in Canada’s largest city.

Rinaldo Walcott, author of On Property, called it "a searing historical account of LGBT politics, which clarifies, critiques, and provides new ways of thinking of our queer past, present, and the work yet to be done. ... This is an important work for our time: queer and beyond."

In this posthumous collection of free verse poetry, a young woman in Toronto chronicles the experience of living on the margins, in spaces and places where body and mind are flayed by guilt, disappointments and betrayals. The Malahat Review wrote: "All Violet clings to the skin long after the final poem and lingers as a testament to the life of Rani Rivera; a glimpse at who she was, and all that she may have become."

What would it mean to map space in ways that address very real histories of displacement and erasure? What would it mean to regard Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour as geographic subjects who model different ways of inhabiting and sharing space?

Edited by Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, and Syrus Marcus Ware (Marvellous Grounds), Queering Urban Justice foregrounds visions of urban justice that are critical of racial and colonial capitalism.

A Lamda Literary Award finalist, this memoir by poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights in 1990s Toronto. The Globe and Mail called it "a biracial-abuse-survivor-queer-femme-working-class-immigrant-anarchist-punk bomb that explodes the myth of LGBT sameness."

Called "a must-read for queer and sexuality theorists and historians alike" by Labour/Le travail, We Still Demand! recovers vibrant and unsung histories of sex and gender activism across Canada from the 1970s to the present. The first part of the book recalls 1970s same-sex marriage activism; early queer union organizing; organizing against police repression; early trans organizing; the emergence of dyke marches; and the organization of Black queer space at Toronto Pride events.

Writing for Maclean’s magazine in 1965, Peter Gzowski saw something different about the new generation of the left. They were not the agrarian radicals of old. They did not meet in union halls. They were a new breed: they emphasized solidarity with national liberation movements, challenging imperialism around the world. They took up organizational forms that anticipated—in their direct, grassroots, community-based democracy—the liberated world of the future. They were academics, peace activists, radical students, feminists, gay liberationists, anti-racist activists, builders of vanguard parties, and cultural workers. Radical Ambition is the first book to explore the history of this dynamic movement and reveal the substantial social changes it won for the people of Toronto.