In 1803 in the colonial South American city of La Plata, Doña Martina Vilvado y Balverde presented herself to church and crown officials to denounce her husband of more than four years, Don Antonio Yta, as a “woman in disguise.” Forced to submit to a medical inspection that revealed a woman’s body, Don Antonio confessed…
The autobiography of E. J. Guerin, AKA Mountain Charley, charting their thirteen years of life living as a man. The memoir follows Guerin’s life as a young mother and wife, which is ruptured by the murder of their husband.
In October 1776 Jemima Wilkinson of Cumberland, Rhode Island, claimed to have died and been resurrected by the Spirit of the Lord as a genderless spirit, renamed the ‘‘Publick Universal Friend.’’ As a resurrected spirit, the Friend defied the line between living and dead, body and spirit, divine and human, and male and female. The…
In The Thirty Names of Night, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one five years after the death of his mother. He has been unable to paint since his mother’s ghost began to visit him each evening.
A suffragist who wore pants. This is just the simplest of ways Dr. Mary Walker is recognized in the fields of literature, feminist and gender studies, history, psychology, and sociology. Perhaps more telling about her life are the words of an 1866 London Anglo-American Times reporter, “Her strange adventures, thrilling experiences, important services and marvelous…
Zurm dritten Mal veröffentlicht Manfred Herzer eine Replik im Zusammenhang einer Debatte, die 1998 durch die Publikation eines Essays des Verfassers ausgelöst wurde: Der Tocl Adams. Geschichts- philo-sophische Thesen zur Sexualemanzipation im Werk lufugnus Hirschfelds.2 In seinerjüngsten Re- plilq’ die den Titel Die Auflösttng. Das Schv,eigen. Hirschfeld als Prophet. Nachklänge zu J. Edgar Bauers Hirschfeld-Deutun{…
Identity, understanding and celebration through the stories of thirty remarkable New Zealanders.Soldiers, politicians, Olympians, doctors, musicians, academics, businesspeople, farmers, writers and fa&‘afafine . . . the thirty LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders in this book are remarkable individuals. They each speak with candour and honesty about their challenges and successes, and together they show how LGBTQIA+ people…
“The foundational text that gave me life-changing context, helping me to understand who I was and who came before me.”—Tourmaline, activist and filmmaker Transgender Warriors is an essential read for trans people of all ages who want to learn about the towering figures who have come before them—and for everyone who is part of the…
Tamara Rees’ autobiography (author name listed as “Tamara Reese”). “This story has its beginning early in the childhood of a person born on May 15, 1924 in Kansas City, Missouri. The family consists of a father, mother and three livingchildren and one still born. The story concerns myself, the middle child, born and surrounded by…
What does it mean to be a man? What about a “good man”? As a trans man, Thomas McBee finds himself wrestling with these questions daily and sets off to explore gender expectations, toxic masculinity, and privilege in this astute, award-winning memoir.