Our Books
Several of our exhibits have been published in book form. We invite you to order them for your libraries and to display them alongside the exhibits.
AUTHENTIC SELVES
Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families
An illuminating volume of interviews and portraits from Skinner House Books, in collaboration with Family Diversity Projects, PFLAG National, and the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund. Foreword by Jazz and Jeanette Jennings and Preface by Brian Bond, CEO, PFLAG National.
AUTHENTIC SELVES is groundbreaking in its depictions of joy and community. With stunning photographs and first-person interviews, it celebrates trans and nonbinary people alongside their partners, parents, children, siblings, and chosen family members – showing not only the challenges they face, but the rich, full lives they lead.
The Unitarian Universalist Association selected AUTHENTIC SELVES as their Common Read for 2025 and developed curriculum for groups using the book and/or exhibit.
Subjects include Senator Sarah McBride, disability justice advocate Parker Glick, and drag entertainer TAYLOR ALXNDR – among many others.
Available from Bookshop • Barnes and Noble • Bookstores Nationwide
LOVE MAKES A FAMILY:
Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and Their Families
“Through sensitive photos and plainspoken autobiographical sketches, (the book) outlines the challenges that nontraditional families face and how, as Minnie Bruce Pratt writes in her foreword, their members are the ‘heart of each others’ heart.”
- Publisher’s Weekly
OF MANY COLORS:
Portraits of Multiracial Families
“This book is effective both because it is important scholarship and it contains profoundly moving human stories. By letting families speak for themselves, they capture the diversity of their experiences. Even the children speak their mind; after all it is they who are often the undeserving recipients of bigotry.”
- Sonia Nieto, Author of Affirming Diversity
NOTHING TO HIDE:
Mental Illness In The Family
“The photographs and interviews give a dignity and humanity to patients and their families, as well as providing a real sense of the day-to-day difficulties of living with mental illness. This book is both wonderful and important.”
- Kay Redfield Jamison Ph.D., author of The Unquiet Mind
IN OUR FAMILY:
Portraits of All Kinds of Families
(Curriculum Guide)
This exhibit was used as the centerpiece in the creation of an integrated model curriculum on diversity at a public middle school, and we have just published a 200 page Curriculum/Resource Guide for use in schools (K-12) and for staff training.