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,…
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…
A Finer Specimen of Womanhood, A Transsexual Speaks out is an autobiographical memoir by Sharon Davis, published in 1985. It is the first ever published memoir by a Black Trans Person.
By turns provocative and startlingly revealing, MY LIFE AS A BOY is the story of a woman trying to figure out what love is, trying to understand what happens between desire and the determination to possess the object of that desire, and discovering what it’s like to go after what you want. “Chernin writes with…
Dame Edna Everage – housewife, megastar, investigative journalist, social anthropologist, children’s book illustrator, chanteuse, swami, monstre sacre, polymath, adviser to British royalty, grief counselor, spin doctor, and gifted woman in the world today. The seeds of stardom were planted in Melbourne, Australia when her career as a performing artiste was strictly a cult following. In…
He was born a boy, but never felt like one. What was he then? He felt attracted to boys. What did this make him? He loved to dance. But why did others make fun of him? Battling such emotional turmoil from a very young age, Laxminarayan Tripathi, born in a high-caste Brahman household, felt confused,…
Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities in Japan. These essays trace the evolution of queer voices…
Asuka is neither a woman nor a man—they’re X-gender (a non-binary identity)—and they’ve realized they like women! Okay, now what? Adult films are fun to watch, but real sex is less appealing. Would having a penis make that better or worse? Periods already suck, and sex means more fluids from more people! This autobiographical manga…
A study of the work and career of psychoanalyst and researcher Robert J Stoller, an early and brilliant observer of the dynamics of gender identity (a term he invented) and sexual dynamics and perversion.