When Cris Beam first moved to Los Angeles, she thought she might put in just a few hours volunteering at a school for transgender kids while she got settled. Instead she found herself drawn deeply into the pained and powerful group of transgirls she discovered. In Transparent she introduces four of them—Christina, Domineque, Foxxjazell, and…
When sixteen-year-old Toria Bland arrives at her new school she needs to work out who her friends are in a crazy whirl of worry, exam pressure and anxiety over fitting in. Things start looking up when Toria meets the funny and foul-mouthed Polly, who’s the coolest girl that Toria has ever seen. Polly and the…
Die Bibliothekarin Brunhilde Busch, 25, ist alles andere als weiblich und alles andere als sexy. Nicht nur wird sie des Öfteren für einen Mann gehalten, sie mag sich auch selbst nicht mehr im Spiegel sehen. Nach einem kleinen Klammeraffen-Unfall, einem grauenvollen Tag in der Notaufnahme und einem peinlichen Moment mit dem heißen Pizzaboten, beschließt sie…
(mirrored from goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48703727-trans-girl-suicide-museum) Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part confessional travelogue from the edge of gender, TGSM is a hallucinatory transmission on sex, identity, the internet, and the flickering wish not to exist in a given body at a given point in time. TGSM raises questions…
An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. Ponyboy unravels in his Paris apartment. Cut to the bar. Cut to the back room. Ponyboy is strung out and struggling. He is falling into the widening chasm between who he is—trans, electrically so—and the blank canvas his girlfriend, Baby, wants…
Clean tells the story of 17-year old London socialite Lexi Volkov. Heiress to her dad’s luxury hotel chain, she is a rich, privileged girl who develops a drug addiction. After an almost-overdose, her brother, Nikoli, sends her (against her will) to a very fancy rehab clinic on a private island that Lexi so eloquently describes…
Experience a darker side of “The Beauty and the Beast” where, in a world of vindictive fairies and scornful magicians, not everyone will live happily ever after. Pulchritude tells the tale of Bella, a beautiful girl caught between her selfish father and an enchanted prince ready to sweep her into a dangerous romance built on…
Fall into the lives of the city’s filthy rich with Juno Dawson’s deliciously dark and intoxicating London Collection. Jana Novak’s history sounds like a classic model cliché: tall and gangly, she’s uncomfortable with her androgynous looks until she’s unexpectedly scouted and catapulted to superstardom… But the fashion industry is as grimy as it is glamorous.…
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Way I Used to Be comes a “tender, beautifully told” (Julie Buxbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things) novel about a transgender boy who falls in love for the first time—and how first love changes us all—perfect for fans of Love, Simon…
In mainstream media, the erotic identities, sex lives, and fantasies of transgender and genderqueer people are often oversimplified, sensationalized, or invisible. Take Me There is an erotica collection unlike any other that celebrates the pleasure, heat, and diversity of transgender and genderqueer sexualities. The power of seeing and being seen is a central theme in…