In this second edition of her bestselling book, BDSM Crisis Actor Mistress Persephone Rose invites readers to explore the connection between “modern sissification and feminization kinks” and the wider Trans world.
Recent antitrans discourses have critiqued trans masculinity in particular as a site of social panic and contagion for proto-trans adolescents. In extreme cases, this is framed as a seduction. Turning “seduction” from a social danger to a benefit, this essay theorizes masc4masc t4t erotics as a type of contagious gendering. The authors discuss the coming…
This essay contemplates an enduring form of reasoning it titles “egg theory”: the type of reasoning that trans people use, prior to transition, to prove transition’s impossibility or fruit- lessness. It follows this reasoning in a critical and ironic framing in the work of the novelist and critic Sybil Lamb and then, in a less…
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity. What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender…
How Sex Changed is a fascinating social, cultural, and medical history of transsexuality in the United States. Joanne Meyerowitz tells a powerful human story about people who had a deep and unshakable desire to transform their bodily sex. In the last century when many challenged the social categories and hierarchies of race, class, and gender,…
Mara and the Bad Wolf is a gender-magical fairy tale for children aged 7-10 written by gender fluid author Ké Kampeas-Rittenhouse, featuring hand-drawn color illustrations by award-winning artist Kamila Wojciechowicz-Krauze. A review in The Townships Sun called the book: “Riveting… carefully crafted and lushly illustrated… in a word: ‘genius’.” The story focuses on the magic…
In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging outfit plan a dance that some of them will volunteer to attend…
Transvestism Around the World Limited Edition … Number One Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/details/transvestismarou00unse Contents: Bambi Coccinelle Carrousel Club Terry Durham Ricky René Shalimar Madame Arthur’s (Paris) Madame Arthur’s (Amsterdam)
When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, fucking strangers, pushing away her friends. Then she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya. The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too…
In the thick of lockdown, 2020, poet, critic, and memoirist Jamie Hood published her debut, How to Be a Good Girl, an interrogation of modern femininity and the narratives of love, desire, and violence yoked to it. The Rumpus praised Hood’s “bold vulnerability,” and Vogue named it a Best Book of 2020. In Trauma Plot,…