A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real.
Books / Publications
Want to read books or zines by our staff, volunteers, writers or partners? You'll find a list of them here and a way to buy some of them from independent booksellers. You can also always check with your local library to access them for free!
- Gretchen Sisson
- Archie Bongiovanni
A graphic novel that explores queerness in a frank and funny way.
- Karen Rayne
- Laura Hancock
A book that gives parents practical tools to proactively teach young children about sexuality and the confidence to use these tools.
- Melissa Meszaros
A defiant memoir like no other, confronting our celebrity-obsessed culture as well as the social challenges that come with recovering from a life-changing injury.
- Archie Bongiovanni
- A. Andrews
In this graphic novel, experience the Stonewall Riots firsthand and meet iconic activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.
- María Conejo
- Zoe Mendelson
Written by the creators of the popular website, this rigorously fact-checked, accessible, and fully illustrated guide is essential for anyone with a pussy.
- Haley Moss
This survival guide is bursting with neurodivergent-friendly advice from autistic people themselves (and a few neurotypicals too) for young adults embarking on their own journeys of self-discovery and independence
- Justin Hancock
This book breaks down the basics of how to give and get consent in every aspect of life for readers aged 14 years and older.
- Emily Joy Allison-Hearn
While patriarchy and misogyny are problems everywhere, they take on a particularly pernicious form in Christian churches where those with power have been insisting, since many decades before #MeToo, that this sexually dysfunctional environment is, in fact, exactly how God wants it to be.
- Heather Corinna
While there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to menopause, Heather Corinna tells you what can happen and what you can do to take care of yourself, all the while busting pernicious myths, offering real self-care tips and running the gamut from hot flashes to hormone therapy.
- Lynn Ponton
Four generations of Métis adolescents come of age during their sixteenth year. Together their voices tell the story of one family and of a people.
- Isabella Rotman
- Luke Howard
A quick, easy and important educational illustrated guide to giving and receiving consent in sex, relationships, and other physical contact.
- Hanne Blank
In Hanne Blank's Fat we find fat as state, as possession, as metaphor, as symptom, as object of desire, intellectual and carnal. Here, “feeling fat” and literal fat merge, blurring the boundaries and infusing one another with richer, fattier meanings.
- Archie Bongiovanni
Queer Flagging 101 is an introduction to what flagging is and how you can use it, plus a few resources for where you can explore the topic in a little more depth!
- Raechel Anne Jolie
Fearlessly honest, wry, and tender, Jolie digs into both the pain of past traumas and the joy of teenaged discovery to craft a love letter to the brassy, big-haired women who raised her and the 90s alternative, riot grrrl culture that shaped her into who she is today: a queer femme with PTSD and a deep love of the Midwest.
- Jaclyn Friedman
- Jessica Valenti
What would happen if we believed women? This groundbreaking anthology offers a potent rallying cry and theory of change.
- Mona Eltahawy
A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they've been trained to avoid.
- Heather Corinna
- Isabella Rotman
- Luke Howard
From Heather Corinna, founder and director of Scarleteen.com, and Isabella Rotman, cartoonist and sex educator, a graphic novel guide that covers essential topics for preteens and young teens about their changing bodies and feelings.
Friends Malia, Rico, Max, Sam and Alexis talk about all the weird...
- Al Washburn
- Archie Bongiovanni
Say hello to our new zine, F*ck Me!, which, like everything else at Scarleteen, is free for anyone and everyone who wants it.
F*ck Me! is a flight of super-helpful fancy that can help you -- or your intimate companions, your platonic friends, your students, the people who come into your clinic, your...
- Jaclyn Friedman
- Jessica Valenti
- Heather Corinna
- Thomas MacAulay Millar
This groundbreaking feminist classic dismantles the way we view rape in our culture and replaces it with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure.
- Karen Rayne
- Kathryn Gonzales
An all-inclusive, uncensored, must-have guide for teens who are living in this world, who identify as transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, gender fluid, or are questioning their gender identity or how they express themselves, and for their cis-allies and advocates.
- Ellen Friedrichs
This book is written for anyone—but especially educators, parents, fellow students, coworkers, and employers—who have helplessly looked around in the midst of some type of sexual injustice wondering, “What can I do?”
- Archie Bongiovanni
A comic that follows the daily adventures of two best friends — Andy, a trans genderqueer individual who is both tough and loving, and their BFF Scout, an all-feelings-all-the-time mistake-maker — as they navigate friendships, roommates, and romances within their community.
- Archie Bongiovanni
- Tristan Jimerson
A quick, easy and important educational comic guide to using gender-neutral pronouns.
- Justin Hancock
- Meg-John Barker
A truly practical, friendly guide through the confusing, and sometimes alarming, world of sex and sexuality.
- Jaclyn Friedman
An urgent account of sexual politics, feminism, and the rules of power in America-and a potent vision for the way forward.
- Karen Rayne
A guide for teen girls covering healthy sexuality, loving relationships, gender fluidity, sexually transmitted infections (STI), consent, sexual assault, and more.
- Mona Eltahawy
Eltahawy has traveled across the Middle East and North Africa, meeting with women and listening to their stories. Her book is a plea for outrage and action on their behalf, confronting a "toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend."
- Heather Corinna
Considered by many to be *the* sex and relationships book for young people, this Lambda Literary Award nominee currently in its 2nd edition covers everything from STIs to sexual orientation, body image to birth control, masturbation to media to misogyny, the anatomy of the clitoris to considering cohabitation.
Breaking the Hush Factor: Ten Rules for Talking with Teenagers about Sex (with a foreword by Heather Corinna)
- Karen Rayne
A quick and approachable read, this book gives parents ten rules to help guide their talks with the youth in their life.
A Freshman Survival Guide for College Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About!
- Haley Moss
Chatty, honest and full of really useful information, Haley's first-hand account of the college experience covers everything students with Autism Spectrum Disorders need to know.
- Ophira Edut
- Tali Edut
Momstrology is the complete guide to understanding how both you and your little one are guided by the stars, and how your charts play a factor in how you relate to each other.
- Hanne Blank
A sweeping social history of heterosexuality from its origins in nineteenth-century Germany to the sex-scandal headlines of today.
- Hanne Blank
This empowering exercise guide is big on attitude, giving plus-size women the motivation and information they need to move their bodies and improve their health.
- Jaclyn Friedman
The co-editor of Yes Means Yes gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world’s confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity.
- Hanne Blank
A one-stop-shopping handbook on relationships, sexuality, and big sexy confidence for people of all genders, sizes, and sexual orientations who know that a fantastic love life doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the number on the bathroom scale
- Marianne Kirby
From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image- no matter what the scales say.
- Ophira Edut
- Tali Edut
A guide to using astrology to navigate romantic relationships.
- Emira Mears
- Lauren Bacon
A book that provides readers with real advice and career options that will allow them to live their values and achieve their own version of work-life balance.
- Hanne Blank
In this fascinating work, Hanne Blank shows why everything we think we know about virginity is wrong.
- Ophira Edut
A collection of stories by those who have chosen to ignore, subvert, or redefine the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home in their bodies.
- Lynn Ponton
Dr. Lynn Ponton's book takes readers inside the minds of 15 troubled adolescents to provide a compelling look at today's teenage experience.