This article argues that through its role as a national clearing house and funding agency, Reed Erickson and the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF) actively directed the course of trans research and contemporary social services and policies effecting trans people.
Sons of the Movement documents the female-to-male (FtM) transition process from an insider’s point of view, and details the limitations of both surgical procedures and pronouns. Bobby Noble challenges both the expectations of masculinity and white masculinity. As a result, this text is equally invested in creating both gender trouble and race trouble, calling for…
An in-depth look at the role of media in the struggle for transgender inclusion From television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live as a transgender person in a…
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the publisher forced us to take this down. You can still access it on Anna’s Archive. Do we need bodies for sex? Is gender in the head or in the body? In Second Skins Jay Prosser reveals the powerful drive that leads men and women literally to shed their skins and–in flesh and…
In Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period. Considering examples that range from the novels of George Eliot to the psychoanalytic practice of Sigmund Freud to marriage manuals by Marie Stopes, Lavery explores the skepticism found in such works about whether it is…
Three essays on the ties between publishing and the colony; the promise of trans liberation through abolition and mutual aid; and revolution as the only redemption for writers enmeshed in oppressive institutions.
In July 2022, Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, a biology graduate student at Humboldt University in Berlin, got into a debate about history on Twitter. The thirty-two-year-old Vollbrecht had already gained national attention in Germany for her anti-trans, “gender-critical” feminism. She was no stranger to heated exchanges on the social media platform. On this occasion, the debate was…
In this research, Pfeil’s main interest is to associate trans narratives with the anarchist political philosophy as a lens of analysis. He understand that the liberation of corporalities is fundamentally bound to the libertarian principles of self-government and self-determination, that is, in any ideal that defends freedom and the emancipation of trans identities. To reinforce…
“Over a period of a year, I spent time in New York and London attending shows, contests, and cabarets and interviewing drag kings about their performances, their identifications, their relations to masculinity, and their understandings of different genres of masculinity. This essay represents just one piece of a book in progress on drag kings, which…
In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they come to know themselves as men? What do they do about it? How do their families respond? Who are…