Lavender and Red
Leslie Feinberg’s series on LGBTQ history, “Lavender & Red,” appeared in the Workers World newspaper in 2004-2008.
Archive Critique Essay History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
Category: Critique
Art Critique Essay Nonfiction Poetry Reference/Guide/Manual
Gendertrash From Hell #3
The third issue of Gendertrash From Hell, a zine produced by and for transsexual and transgender people. This issue contains a variety of submissions ranging from poetry, artwork, and articles regarding trans activism.
Critique Natural Sciences Nonfiction Social Sciences
Retransitioning: The experiences of youth who socially transition genders more than once
Background: Retransitions in youth are critical to understand, as they are an experience about which little is known and about which families and clinicians worry. Aims: This study aims to qualitatively describe the experiences of youth who made binary social transitions (came to live as the binary gender different from the one assigned at birth)…
Biography Critique Essay History Humanities Law/Legal Natural Sciences Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
The Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress
Update: we are saddened to learn that the translator has requested a takedown of this text. We are currently looking into open access options but the text will not be available on Trans Reads for now. Please contact us if you have any questions. —— For the first time in history, we are proud to…
Archive Biography Critique History Humanities Nonfiction Reference/Guide/Manual Social Sciences Theory
Die Transvestiten: Untersuchung Über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb; Mit Umfangreichem Casuistischen und Historischen Material (2nd edition)
Magnus Hirschfeld’s second print of the historic book, “The Transvestites.” Transvestites are women and men who feel reluctant and even refuse to dress in the clothing of their own sex. For them, the inherent drive to cross-dress is often more powerful than sexual drive itself. This phenomenon has often been confronted with both ignorance and…
Archive Critique History Humanities Natural Sciences Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
Die Transvestiten: Untersuchung Über den Erotischen Verkleidungstrieb; Mit Umfangreichem Casuistischen und Historischen Material
Magnus Hirschfeld’s first print of the historical book, “The Transvestites.” Transvestites are women and men who feel reluctant and even refuse to dress in the clothing of their own sex. For them, the inherent drive to cross-dress is often more powerful than sexual drive itself. This phenomenon has often been confronted with both ignorance…
Critique Essay Nonfiction
Gender Vandalism
Gender Vandalism – manifesto written by the legendary Glimmer (mostly known as Glimmerpilled on instagram). It touches on the subjects of labels, gender abolition and other.
Critique Essay History Humanities Nonfiction Theory
Reflections: Egg Hatching; Or, Letting the Eighteenth Century Be Trans
For the past several decades, scholars have examined the queer identities and sexual practices in eighteenth-century materials. However, queer and non-normative gender has been less frequently researched, even within the body of scholarship devoted to queer eighteenth-century studies. Scholars often take at face value the period’s gender norms, thereby suppressing the fact of a transgender…
Biography Critique History Humanities Nonfiction Social Sciences Theory
Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City
Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols–they need access…
Anthology Biography Critique Essay History Humanities Law/Legal Social Sciences Theory
Trans Dilemmas Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities
Trans Dilemmas presents the findings of a three-year research project which examined the lived experiences of trans people in Australia’s Northern Territory. The book argues that whilst trans people, who live in remote areas, experience issues which may not be distinct from those living in urban areas and the inner-city, these issues can be aggravated…