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Seeley's Starter List for Transgender and Queer Issues
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Beyond Definition:
New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco
Marci Blackman and Trebor Healey
- Manic D Press
- $10.95
An amazing strong anthology of poems and stories of multiply classed, racialized and gendered realities. Nine years later, the political perspectives are fresh and accessible.
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Pomosexuals: Challenging Assumptions about Gender and Sexuality
Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel
- Cleis Press
- $14.95
Following the idea of postmodernism, PoMoSexuals describes queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation. These stories and essays are fun, provocative, and set up a new range of questions.
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Gender Outlaw:
On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein
- Vintage Books
- $13.00
Kate has continued major contributions to trans theory and art since coming out with this first seminal book, and now, identifying with variant gender, known as "ze," welcomes us into hir personal transsexual story, to help in exploring the larger idea of transgender, and show how far and wide open that can go. Gorgeous and brilliant.
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Transgender Warriors:
Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman
Leslie Feinberg
- Beacon Press
- $21.00
An excellent document of transgender history, pulling illustrations and references to gender variant living throughout many centuries and cultures. Feinberg also offers some of hir own trans experience within this context of a large and long phenomenon.
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The Last Time I Wore a Dress
Daphne Scholinski with Jane Meredith Adams
- Riverhead Books
- $13.00
A memoir of being a teenager in the 1980's and committed to a mental institution for three years with the diagnosis of "Gender Identity Disorder." A real gutsy story of how being too "inappropriately" gendered still incarcerates many queer youth who are no more mentally disordered than the rest of us.
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S/He
Minnie Bruce Pratt
- Firebrand Books
- $11.95
Les Feinberg's femme partner for many years, Pratt lyrically writes of how Les' unfixable gender identity brings into question her own sexual orientation, and what it can be to love trans people in general. Expansive, sophisticated, politically and personally liberatory vignettes.
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gENDERqUEER:
Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary
Editors: Clare Howell, Joan Nestle, and Riki Anne Wilchins
- Alyson Books
- $16.95
Current anthology of thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning. Beautiful narratives and rocking introductions from the editors who add their own historical frameworks to the issue.
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Exile and Pride:
Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
Eli Clare
- South End Press 1999
- $14.00
Brilliant, quick read exploring Clare's sense of self and gender as linked with disability, rural patriarchal raising, and thirst for freedom. Poetic, and great points about the linking of intersexed, developmentally and congenitally disabled, and people of color as exotic Others in "freak shows" of the nineteenth century that affect our categorizing today.
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Best Transgender Erotica
Editors: Hanne Blank and Raven Kaldera
- Circlet Press 2002
- $16.95
At last, the first specific porn collection which does a lovely job of illuminating aspects of trans identity, and letting many varieties of trans folk and admirers speak about how we can be hot! Fierce with humor, grit, edge, and wisdom; a fine way to learn more about the wonderful world of sexy gender-fucking queers.
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| NOTE: last two aren't strictly on topic, but I want to highlight for their excellence in challenging oppressive views that keep us from embracing across different class, race, religion, age, education, dis/ability, etc. |
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Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale of New York
Samuel R Delany (Author), Mia Wolff (Illustrator)
- Juno Books
- $14.99
Bread and Wine is a sensitively drawn graphic novella about the beginning of a moving and lasting gay relationship, with all the complexities, fumblings, and excitement of the process of two people-an African American writer/professor and white homeless street guy-falling in love.
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Sister / Stranger: Lesbians Loving Across the Lines
Jan Hardy, editor
- Sidewalk Revolution Press
- $12.50
A rad anthology of poems, stories and essays about dykes negotiating lover and friend relationships specifically across differences listed above. Super good info and politics.
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