Discover the remarkable woman behind the legend.Discover Christine Jorgensens remarkable, inspirational journey to become the woman she always knew she should have been. Becoming a A Biography of Christine Jorgensen provides fascinating insights about the woman who opened doorsand mindson behalf of sexual minorities. This book chronicles Christines drive, ability to solve problems, immense determination,…
this is the story of how I was raped by my first boyfriend while having to deal with transphobia.
this is the story of dealing with rape and being transgender at the same time. I hope it helps others who are going through the same exact thing
Unfortunately we received a copyright claim on this book and can no longer host it on our site. You can still access it on annas-archive.org by searching the title. Raimund Wolfert […] hat eine kurze, aber ungeheuer interessante Biografie über eine Patientin und Mitarbeiterin an [Magnus Hirschfelds Institut für Sexualwissenschaft] geschrieben. […] Das Buch basiert…
This chapter explores the tripartite relationship between transgender identities, political activism, and sonic practice. In particular, this chapter employs theorizations of noise to explore a rupture in the prevalent binarisms of sound and gender in the American punk scene and its aesthetics. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks such as Herbert Marcuse’s one-dimensional society and Jean-François Lyotard’s…
Told with humour and flair, this is the autobiography of one transsexual’s wild ride from boyhood as Alfred Brevard (Buddy) Crenshaw in rural Tennessee to voluptuous female entertainer in Hollywood. Aleshia Brevard, as she is now known, underwent transitional surgery in Los Angeles in 1962, one of the first such operations in the United States.…
The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man and the secret 1968 legal case that provides “a fascinating look into the changing landscape of trans rights” (Library Journal) throughout history. Ewan Forbes was born to a wealthy, landowning family, holders of a baronetcy, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1912. Assigned female at birth, his true…
Photographic portraits of queer subjects from the early 20th century—shaped by early medical-scientific and legal practices—have often been identified with hegemonic ways of seeing, even when they re restaged in the present. In this article we argue that bringing an ethics of attentiveness to the analysis of such photographs reveals not only how embodied subjectivities…
SELF: A Study in Ethics and Endocrinology considers the psycho-physical mechanisms and reactions in human nature and destiny. This book is composed of seven chapters and begins with a description of the complexity of human body and mind, specifically their physical basis and nature of functioning. These topics are followed by a presentation on the…
The true story of transgender adult film superstar Meghan Chavalier as told by Meghan herself. Meghan will take you through her years as a stage performer, a dancer, and ultimately how she became one of the most famous transgender adult film stars in the world. It hasn’t all been all fame and fortune, in fact,…