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.
Transition memoir, structured around the experience of hormonal transition. Valerio writes a lot about how his politics and assumptions as a lesbian feminist were challenged and made more complex by the experience of FtM transition, reflecting on his changing inner experience and social reception. Valerio is an American Indian (Blackfoot)/Latino poet, performer, and writer.
An anthology ‘coffee table’ book on FTM transition. There are images and profile-interviews with trans men, essays on topics like sacred spirituality and trans men in history. All in all, a bit of an odd collection but also an interesting time capsule. Caution! Kotula’s photography includes step-by-step images of surgery-in-process (which may or may not…
On 30 March 2020, the Hungarian parliament approved emergency measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, granting prime minister Viktor Orbán the power to rule by decree. The very next day, the government repealed the legal recognition of transgenderism, ruling that assignations of biological sex are binary and permanent. The decision to place sexual difference…
An overview of the history of gender and sexuality in the Great Plains
A look at the concept of transgender identity in the “Wild West” of the United States, mostly focused on people we might now refer to as transgender men.
Sylvia Rivera – Queens in Exile, The Forgotten Ones From Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle. Untorelli Press, 2013.
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…
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.
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…