Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness is starting a book club! Here you'll find books from our guest experts on the podcast, and some of our favorite reads.

Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Pretty Boys: Legendary Icons Who Redefined Beauty (and How to Glow Up, Too)
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
Black Disability Politics
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
Beyond the Gender Binary
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Female Husbands: A Trans History
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Indigenous DC: Native Peoples and the Nation's Capital
More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
Screenage: How TV Shaped Our Reality, from Tammy Faye to Rupaul's Drag Race
Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling Volume 70
The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929