Fiction Nonfiction Poetry

Survivalism for Hedonists

Survivalism for Hedonists is a collection of poetic experiments, using digital randomization and cut-up techniques to explore how exploding language might move us closer to representing cataclysmic life events—and how we survive them. “… lyrically prismatic poems that are tenderhearted, fierce, vulnerable, and exposed – in the reconfiguration, they uncover some core survival tactics for…

Biography Fiction Historical Fiction Nonfiction

The Female Husband: or, the Surprising History of Mrs. Mary, alias Mr. George Hamilton, who was Convicted of having Married a young Woman of Wells and Lived with her as her Husband.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_(female_husband) “Henry Fielding is generally considered one of the great classic English novelists, best known for his novels Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749). In 1746, Fielding anonymously published this novelette, which is a fictionalized account of the story of Mary Hamilton, who became notorious as the female husband. Hamilton grew up in Scotland…

Anthology Archive Art Biography Essay Humanities Nonfiction Photography

Treat Me Like Your Mother: Trans* Histories From Beirut’s Forgotten Past

This special edition issue by Mohamad Abdouni, co-edited by Joy Stacey and Rayan Abdel Khalek, is a public archive that compiles studio shoots, interviews, personal photographs and archival imagery to record the untold stories of ten trans* women living in Beirut. It pays tribute to trans* women and femme men who have been largely erased…

Archive History Natural Sciences Nonfiction Social Sciences

Spironolactone in the Presurgical Therapy of Male to Female Transsexual: Philosophy and Experience of the Vancouver Gender Dysphoria Clinic

Vancouver General Hospital has had, for approximately 5 years, a number of individual specialists working together in the care of transsexual patients. For the past year, a formal multidisciplinary clinic has been in operation. In March, 1986, the provincial medical plan recognized the Gender Dysphoria Clinic by agreeing to fund gender reassignment surgery for patients…