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,…
‘A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times’ – Jordy Rosenberg ‘Femme’ describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Building upon experiences of transformation, belonging and harm, this book is a transfeminist call for…
The Transgender Athlete: A Guide for Sports Medicine Providers presents sports medicine practitioners insights into the unique issues and concerns of transgender athletes in order to help them understand rules regarding transgender athlete participation and learn how to better provide competent care to transgender athletes. There are over 1.4 million transgender adults in the United…
Four Case studies. Transvestism is defined by Kinsey as behaviour by ‘an individual who prefers to wear the clothes of the opposite sex and who desires to be accepted in the social organization as an individual of the opposite sex’. Transsexualism refers to those cases where in addition the urge exists to undergo a sex-conversion…
Short biography of Eugen Steinach, who wrote “Physiology of the Male Sex Organs” and other works on sex glands and organs.
“Philadelphia steelworker tells intimate story of how he was reared by Georgia Black, the man who lived as a woman for 30 years in Florida.” Describes Willie Sabb’s mother, Georgia Black, a trans woman featured in Black on Both Sides (Snorton) and Before Gender (Erlick). This PDF is the full issue. The article is featured…
The psychotherapy conducted under LSD intoxication included 12 homosexual males (6 ephebophilic and 6 androphilic subjects) and 6 transsexual females. The transsexual females were non-neurotic and no traumatism was found in their sociopsychic sphere. Despite their excellent co-operation the therapy revealed an absolute hopelessness of adaptation of their socio-sexual orientation. LSD was rather inclined to…
An unprecedented cultural alliance is underway between the anti-trans strand of the radical feminist movement and a new brand of militant right-wing politics that takes issue with the idea that gender is a social and cultural construction. This so-called “anti-gender” movement—which also travels under names such as “gender-critical feminism”—has found immense international power and is…
Maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde’s use of the erotic as theory and methodology. The author turns to lesbian/gay artistry and activism…
Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine: Transgender in the 1910s. This article is about Arnold T., a trans woman who lived in Zurich during the 1910s. The analytical focus is on the historically specific construction of a transgender self- identity. Using a unique set of sources, it demonstrates how Arnold T. developed a relationship with herself through a…