The Essential Janet Hardy | Janet W. Hardy | Essays
Forthcoming in September 2026: The Essential Janet Hardy by Janet W. Hardy
In this extraordinary collection spanning three decades, Janet Hardy charts a life lived at the margins of identity and desire. From discovering Captain Hook’s allure as a child to pioneering educational writing about BDSM, from motherhood to chosen family, Hardy writes with unflinching honesty about the territory between genders, between roles, between what we’re supposed to want and what we actually do.
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The Essential Janet Hardy, Janet W. Hardy
$28.00
ISBN: 978-1-968274-13-9
Fine Softcover; 350+ pages; 6″x9″
Publication Date: September 8, 2026
Summary
In this extraordinary collection spanning three decades, Janet Hardy charts a life lived at the margins of identity and desire. From discovering Captain Hook’s allure as a child to pioneering educational writing about BDSM, from motherhood to chosen family, Hardy writes with unflinching honesty about the territory between genders, between roles, between what we’re supposed to want and what we actually do.
With a foreword from Dossie Eaton, these memoirs and essays — including the acclaimed Girlfag and Impervious — showcase Hardy’s gift for dissolving boundaries on the page as effortlessly as in life. With wit, musical theater references, and a deep commitment to telling the unspeakable, Hardy offers readers a masterclass in how to live and write without apology.
Author
Janet W. Hardy is the author or co-author of more than a dozen groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut, which has sold more than 500,000 copies to date and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She founded Greenery Press, where she served as editor in chief for more than 25 years. Janet lives the life of a kinky poly queer genderbent geezer in Eugene, Oregon, with her equally kinky poly queer genderbent spouse.
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