Nillin Lore’s recently published Carry On: Unpacking Your Internalized Transphobic and Queerphobic Baggage (Thornapple Press, March 20, 2026) is a self-help book of sorts for Queer and Trans people. The chapters span topics from self-advocacy to finding community and dealing with queer/transphobia. Gender and sexuality are both front and centre in contemporary moral panics around the globe, and subjects who are not heterosexual or cisgender are increasingly finding their worlds hostile to their sexed and gendered identities.
“My mission with Carry On is to encourage and empower queer, trans, gender nonconforming, neurodivergent, disabled, and marginalized people to focus inwardly on their own happiness, boundaries, and fulfillment. We can’t always change the world, and we certainly can’t make other people do what we want them to do, even if all we’re asking is for acceptance and respect, but we can unlearn all the toxicity and hate the society instills in us about ourselves. We can take control of our own narratives and forge lives for ourselves and community for each other.”
