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“He/She/They” Is a Helpful Guide and Call to Action for Allies Everywhere
I’d recommend suggesting it to as many well-meaning cis people as you possibly can.
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“Fair Play” Reflects on the Origins of the Trans Sports Debate and How We Can End It
Throughout the text, Barnes reminds us over and over again: “What began as a good-faith discussion about policy and physiological differences between sexes has given way to a level of intolerance and discrimination that is simply unconscionable.”
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K. Allison Hammer Imagines the Queer and Trans Possibilities of Masculinity
Rather than focus on individual, exceptional figures of toxic masculinity, Hammer wanted to explore masculinity as a cultural form that people of all genders can embody.
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Danny Lavery on Queer Wanting, Difficult Experiences, and Oh Yes His New Book
Trying desperately to want less than what one truly requires — and the goodness that comes from giving up that ghost — is a prominent theme in “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” Daniel Lavery’s new collection of essays, out Feb. 11.
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Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art is a book about selfies and our relationships to them.
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In “Pageboy,” Elliot Page Gets Vulnerable About Gender Dysphoria, Trans Joy, and Much More
Like a lot of millennials my age, I grew up watching Elliot Page’s films and his ascent to stardom
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Gender Nonconformity Has Always Existed
Trans activist and historian Kit Heyam’s new book Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender examines gender nonconformity throughout history.
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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”
Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.
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Explore NYC’s Underground Queer and Trans Rave Scene in “Raving”
Readers are constantly reminded that so much of what makes white-dominated raves comes from Black culture.
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Cecilia Gentili’s “Faltas” Is One of the Best Memoirs I’ve Ever Read
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is an exciting and, at times, breathtaking addition to the canon of works about “messy trans lives.”
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“Voice of the Fish” Examines the Slippery Nature of Bodies
It’s so hard to have a body. Isn’t it?
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In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
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Perfume Provides a Map of Memory and History in This Powerful Memoir
Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.
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“Burning Butch” Is the Trans Butch Memoir We’ve Always Needed
We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.
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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
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Hil Malatino’s “Trans Care” Doesn’t Have the Answers on Meeting Trans Community Needs — But It Shouldn’t
It’s doubly oppressive that we’re denied care and then left to fulfill the care needs of each other with our own depleted resources. Transantagonism is a global pandemic of indifference and hatred – but there’s no vaccine coming. If you were looking for answers, they aren’t here. If you want to ponder the nuance and difficulty of care, though – dive into Trans Care.
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Cyrus Grace Dunham’s “A Year Without a Name” Is an Affecting, Imperfect Exploration of Identity
Often, we talk about novels that should have been short stories. Dunham’s book of the same title “A Year Without a Name” feels like a memoir that should have been a personal essay.
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Andrea Long Chu’s “Females” Is More Than a Provocation
“More than gender, Chu is writing about desire. She might argue they’re the same thing, and she is convincing, but whether or not you agree with her, this exploration of desire is worth considering.”
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“Black on Both Sides” Disrupts Black and Trans History as You Know It
Blackness and transness interconnect in this radical history of not just black and trans people, but also where beliefs about black and trans people come from.
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Juno Roche’s Queer Sex Is an Argument for Erotic Empowerment
Queer Sex, a collection of interviews with trans and non-binary folks on sex, love and intimacy, is a map to erotic empowerment. In this excerpt, author Juno Roche explores her fears, hopes and erotic potential.