Funny Book for Gender Neutral Pronouns
Focused on love, partnership, and cultivating the landscape of one's own body, this collection seeks happiness in a world saturated with transphobia and marred by climate change. Though this world is finite, these poems want you to live forever.
Full Title: Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman | Though certain from a young age that she is a girl, Stein suppresses her desire for a new body while seeking answers. Eventually, she must leave her way of life—and her family—behind.
In this crime novel set in 1887, a gender-fluid former detective goes undercover to infiltrate a smuggling ring and navigates shifting allegiances once on the inside. One wrong move and she could be unmasked: as a woman, as a traitor, or as a spy.
In this collection that explores events including the beginning of Dodd's gender transition and the 2017 inauguration, mythology and autobiographical poetry are woven together.
Drawing from a deep, varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films—Snorton attends to how slavery and racialized gender provided the basis for understanding gender as mutable.
Royal twins Mokoya and Akeha were sold to the Grand Monastery as infants. While Mokoya developed a prophetic gift, Akeha was one for action. Running from their mother's twisted schemes, Akeha falls in with the rebels. But every step Akeha takes is a step away from Mokoya.
Full Title: Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex | Stanley and Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics for a new understanding of how race, gender, ability, and sexuality are lived under the weight of captivity.
Existing in the boundaries between death and rebirth, Twist's poetry collection explores the reality of loving when faced with colonialism and transmisogyny. Visceral, powerful, and transformative, Twist confronts painful realities and advocates for something better.
After growing up in a village in the Philippines, where she is assigned male at birth, Talusan earns a scholarship to Harvard and finds herself in elite circles where she must tackle complex questions of race and class and discover her place in the LGBTQ+ community.
Full Title: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir | Highly sensational, ultra-exciting story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung fu expert who runs away from her abusive home in a rainy city to find her true family.
The son of a rich family in Sri Lanka, Arjie prefers pretend weddings to cricket. Forced to conform by his parents, bewildered by his sexual awakening, and mortified by the bloody conflicts of his homeland, he painfully grows toward an understanding of his own "different" self.
Gamers. Cosplayers. B-movie lovers. Otaku. Comic book enthusiasts. History buffs. Animals. Coffee. There's no limit to what can be geeked over, and no rules about who is allowed to geek out about what—and no telling when and where those geeks will fall in love.
Full Title: The Gender Creative Child: Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes | Ehrensaft explores the effects of biology, nurture, and culture to explain gender fluidity and encourages caregivers to listen, learn about needs, and support.
Collection of new voices from the stage, the streets, the workplace, the bedroom, and the pages and websites of the world's respected news sources. Essays, commentary, comics, and conversation from diverse, trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.
Begun as a way to explain to Kobabe's family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is both a personal story—of adolescent crushes and coming out—and an illuminating exploration of gender identity for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
Is masculinity "toxic?" Why are public toilets a political issue? This illustrated book traces shifting ideas of gender across time and space, through intersectional experiences of race, disability, and more, explores current tensions, and imagines a more celebratory approach.
Andy and Scout are best buds and roommates. They're just trying to make it through their 20s, survive late capitalism, and navigate the dating world. Andy is genderqueer and dates like mad, while Scout is still languishing over her ex-girlfriend… from, like, two years ago.
Ramirez started wearing her mother's shoes when everyone still knew her as Martin. Growing up in a conservative household as an adopted Mexican American, she became high school valedictorian and a tenured professor, and had a family before finally being able to be her true self.
A groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and art from diverse contributors, illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness.
Full Title: Helping Your Transgender Teen: A Guide for Parents (Second Edition) | Essential guidance for parents of trans and nonbinary teens to help them support their children, including advice on hormones and surgery, use of pronouns, and how to transition socially.
This classic enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance, with trans and bisexual protagonists, explores the shifting nature of online and real-world identities. Jay and Maria, both brilliant, think they hate each other, but their anonymous online personas think otherwise.
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and 90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza, made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is Burning.
Exposing the complex ways misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia shape our lives, Shraya's writing is an intimate call to disrupt harmful gender binaries.
In this reimagining of Peter Pan, readers meet the queer punk runaway bois who have sworn allegiance to Pan, the fearless leader of the Lost Bois brigade, and the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi, who, along with the tomboy John Michael, Pan convinces to come to Neverland.
Full Title: Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man | What is masculinity? As he makes the decision to transition, McBee considers two men who have affected him: his abusive father and the mugger who almost killed him.
What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Nuanced storytellers break away from mainstream portrayals, cutting across lines of age, race, ethnicity, ability, class, religion, family, and relationships.
Full Title: Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance | Organizers, artists, healers, and leaders speak about themes including Black femme mental health, Pacific Islander authorship, disability and healthcare, and sex worker activism.
Full Title: Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity—A bklyn boihood Anthology | These stories, memories, poems, ideas, essays, and letters examine what it looks and feels like to inhabit masculinity outside of cisgendered manhood as people of color in the world.
Returning to Neverland after ten years spent growing up, Peter Pan finds everything has changed: the Lost Boys are men and their games are now deadly. Even more shocking is his attraction to an old rival, Captain Hook—and that he no longer knows which of them is the real villain.
Gyen Jebi isn't a fighter. They just want to paint. But then they are recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the sigils that animate the occupying soldiers. When Jebi discovers their horrifying crimes, they can't stay neutral anymore.
Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary.
Naturally sensitive, playful, creative, and glitter-obsessed, Jacob was labeled "sissy" as a child. Before long, "sissy" joined forces with "gay," "trans," "nonbinary," and "too-queer-to-function" to become a source of pride and, here, a rallying cry for a gender revolution.
Full Title: Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place—A Transgender Memoir | An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, following a difficult childhood and adolescence, he came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties.
Full Title: The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective | Ladin explores how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another.
A collection of poetry and prose bringing together Native gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and Two-Spirit writing. Embracing diverse voices and writing styles, this collection is a powerful example of creative resistance.
Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg. Growing up in a blue collar town in the 1950s, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding to pass as a man in order to survive in the early '70s.
Full Title: Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition—An Up and Out Collection | A highly personal collection documenting the early months of artist Julia Kaye's gender transition told through the relatable and poignant artwork of her Up and Out web comic.
Mock's writing about pop culture brought her into the mainstream, and she's used that position to advocate for the rights of trans women of color ever since. Here, she explores in depth the challenges she faced in her twenties and coming into her own as a writer.
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy is looking for a new name. One night, he finds the tattered journal of a mysterious artist that will reveal secrets about his family, and the queer histories in his community.
A family reshapes their ideas about family, love, and loyalty when youngest son Claude reveals increasingly determined preferences for girls' clothing and accessories and refuses to stay silent.
This inspirational collection of letters written by trans women shares lessons they learned and celebrates their achievements. Politicians, scientists, models, artists, and activists from around the world offer advice from make-up and dating to fighting transphobia.
Full Title: To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults | Dugan and Fabbre traveled the US documenting the lives of this underrepresented group of older adults for this vital record of the transgender experience.
A funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Coyote recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those who don't fit into boxes or identities or labels.
Full Title: Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community | Each chapter in this helpful guide is written by a trans or genderqueer author and covers a single issue, from health, cultural and social questions, and history, to theory, legal issues, and more.
This lively and smart book offers a new way of approaching an analysis of grammar, language use, social media, stories, poetry, theory, and film that foregrounds the multiple meanings of trans bodies.
This series of anthologies features speculative fiction by trans authors, starring trans characters, and/or featuring trans themes.
Trans seminary student Austen Hartke offers a bible-based, affirming resource to shed light on our modern gender landscape. Using biblical characters' stories and real-life narratives from trans Christians living today, Hartke helps readers imagine a more inclusive Christianity.
This book covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. Adopting a chronological approach, each chapter covers major movements, writings, and events.
Full Title: Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility | Essays on themes including beauty, activism, and police brutality that argue that "doors" to recognition are actually "traps," accommodating trans bodies only if they cooperate with dominant norms.
Aster lives in the slums of the HSS Matilda, a spaceship organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, it has ferried the last humans to a mythical promised land. Stuck with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way out—if she's willing to spark a civil war.
Robert Selby lands on Marquess Alistair's doorstep, aiming to find a husband for his sister. However, the Marquess is beguiled by the impertinent scamp, who turns out to be a loyal and crafty housemaid in disguise. And who is also drawn to him, and rather enjoys wearing breeches.
Full Title: The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication | This guide discusses techniques for realizing an authentic voice, including changing pitch, resonance, and intonation.
A versatile missive written from the intersections of gender, disability, trauma, and survival. "Some girls are not made, but spring from the dirt." Guided by a devastatingly precise hand, this book challenges a canon that decides what shades of beauty deserve to live in a poem.
Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave together experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective.
In this guide to understanding gender identity, Hoffman-Fox, a gender therapist and thought leader, explores how readers might navigate journeys of self-discovery in three approachable stages: preparation, reflection, and exploration.
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