Perverts

Kay Gabriel author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Nightboat Books

Publishing:13th Nov '25

£13.99

This title is due to be published on 13th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Perverts cover

Advance Reader Copies 

ARCs sent to sales reps as well as in galley box to indie bookstores 

Digital ARCs sent to media for national print, radio, and online campaign

Social media campaign, with the book promoted by key literary influencers focusing on Queer, Trans and political literature.

Promotion on Nightboat’s e-newsletter and interview on Nightboat Blog

Submission to major literary and book awards

Simultaneous print and e-book release

Launch event in NYC, author works at The Poetry Project and hosts raves in NYC, as well as national tour 

Email [email protected] for physical galleys


Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life.

Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Pervertsexplores desire as a political problem. It asks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s question—how do we turn what we have into what we need to get what we want? Synthesizing her own dreams with those of her friends, Kay Gabriel’s Perverts is an exercise in turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause..

“[Gabriel] imagines desire as a constant, not a crisis, but it is a constant that is flexible and porous, with a poetics to match.” —New York Review of Books 


“Gabriel is among those freeing trans writing from the trap of identity.” —McKenzie Wark

ISBN: 9781643622941

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

96 pages