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makingqueerhistory · 2 months

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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.

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#queer history #queer #lgbt #lgbt history #transgender history #transgender #making queer history #queer books #transgender books #lgbt books

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scared-to-look · 6 months

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I’ve never heard a quote about transness I’ve related to more

#book quotes #book quotations #trans man #transgender #transmasc #trans pride #ya books #the spirit bares its teeth #tsbit #andrew joseph white #hell followed with us #hfwu #transgender books

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godzilla-reads · 27 days

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

#godzilla reads #trans day of visibility #tdov 2024 #book blog #trans books #transgender books #booklr #bookworm #reading #bookish

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coffin-flop · 3 months

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i found this on canva and totally forgot I made it at some point. so here's a list of some of my personal fave authors who use they/them, neo, or multiple pronouns :3

Aiden Thomas

Rivers Solomon

Emery Lee

Anna-Marie (A-M) McLemore

Sarah Gailey

Akwaeke Emezi

(the links lead to author's website or wikipedia page, depending)

#trans authors #trans books #nonbinary authors #nonbinary books #transgender books #trans pride #queer books #trans book recs #nonbinary book recs #anyway the featured images aren't necessarily my fave by each author if u want book recs pls dm me i'm always wanting to talk abt trans boo #there are many ppl (some of my other faves too!) tht include btw!#lgbt books #queer authors

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the-bi-library · 11 months

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Bi trans books part 1

Books with bi MCs that are also trans :)

Here is the goodreads list of bi trans books.

Books listed

💕 The Oracle Stone by Talli L. Morgan 💕 The Savior's Rise by Talli L. Morgan 💕 Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee 💕 Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore 💕 Wolfpack by Rem Wigmore 💕 The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie 💕 Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender 💕 Jude Saves the World by Ronnie Riley 💕 The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

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haveyoureadthishorrorbookpoll · 3 months

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Have you read...

Her doctor is giving her the body of his dreams... and her nightmares. Isa is a micro-celebrity who rarely shows her face, and can’t wait to have it expertly ripped off and rearranged to look more feminine. When a successful fundraiser makes her gender affirming surgery possible, she’s overjoyed—until she has to give up all her money to save her dying father. Crushed by gender dysphoria and the pressure of disappointing her fans who paid for a new face, she answers a sketchy ad seeking transgender women for a free, experimental feminization treatment. The grotesquely flawless Dr. Skurm has gruesome methods, but he gets unbelievable results, and Isa is finally feeling comfortable in her skin. She even gains the courage to ask out her crush: an alluring and disfigured alchemy-obsessed artist named Rayna. But Isa’s body won’t stop changing, and she’s going from super model to super mutant. She has to discover the secret behind her metamorphosis—before the changes are irreversible, and she’s an unwanted freak forever.

submit a horror book!

#transmuted #eve harms #horror books #horrorbookpoll #horror #bookblr #books #horror novella #queer horror #queer books #queer lit #trans horror #trans books #trans literature #body horror #transgender books

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sapphicbooksandmore · 5 months

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Happy trans awareness week! In honor of this week, here is a list of book recs with transgender characters.

#transgender #trans awareness #trans books #transgender books #lgbtq books

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gardenfeather-book-reviews · 2 days

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The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White

Silas Bell, a young autistic transgender man living in the 1880s in England, wants to be a surgeon. Not a wife and mother. After a botched escape from a future devoted to a husband, he is diagnosed with “veil sickness,” a disease that causes violet eyed women to open the veil and communicate with the dead, an act that is illegal for women to do.

He is sent to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanatorium and engaged to a wealthy lord's son. But Braxton might not be what it seems. And Silas is the only one who can save the life of his new friends by uncovering the secrets of the school, all while fighting the voice in his head telling him to just do as he is told. For Silas, doing as he is told is not an option.

Andrew Joseph White has crafted an incredible story. All of the characters are complex and every character has so much depth. White is able to balance the main character, Silas, with all aspects of his identity. They are all woven throughout the story in an authentic way that gives him personality outside of those defining traits while still acknowledging how important they are. It is one of the best representations of autism I have ever read.

The setting and accuracy to historical detail makes the stakes seem real and send you to the time period. He uses the time period to bring light to the story he wants to tell. His use of imagery is terrific.

White is able to discuss so many important topics throughout the book, all of which apply in some way to our society today. He somehow is able to highlight and tackle each complex theme in one book while giving them each the space to be recognized for their individual importance.

Gory and dense while also romantic, The Spirit Bares its Teeth is an amazing novel with an incredible message to fight for your life and happiness, even if the whole world is against you.

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bones-clouds · 15 days

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best books i read in 2024:

"tell me i'm worthless"

alison rumfitt

rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

genre: horror, gothic, lgbt, transgender

synopsis:

Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep.

Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go.

Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own.

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autistic-zukoao3 · 8 months

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You there! You transgender scallywag!!! Yes, you!

Give me transgender books, movies, etc. Give me recommendations. I'm feeling so Transgender today. Usually I forget, but not today.

#trans #transgender #transgender books #transgender movies #trans movies #trans books

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deanangeles · 1 year

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"The Stars Below" is trending as the number 5 #transman story on Wattpad! Chapter 2 and 3 are now up. If you enjoy please vote or comment to help get more readers to see this novel. Thanks everyone!

From the author of "Refuse" and 'Show "Trans."

"Damien, an anxious transgender man, moves to the country to write, where he uses copious amounts of hallucinogens and begins a relationship with his landlord, a shapeshifter with a mysterious past."

#FTM #trans man #trans boy #trans literature #trans book #nonbinary #LGBTQ books #trans books #transgender books #transgender literature #LGBT books #queer books #queer #queer book #LGBT book #LGBTQ book

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makingqueerhistory · 3 months

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Transgender Books For Your Libraries

I have said this before, but right now requesting and reading queer books from your local library is important. I want to take a second to say there is a direct attack against the transgender community around the globe, and it's worth your time to request and read transgender books. So, here are some transgender books to request:

(Some links are affiliate links and the money goes to Making Queer History's research fund)

People Change, Vivek Shraya

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler

The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw

Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure, MX Sly

Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi

Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity, Thomas Page McBee

The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya

Dark and Deepest Red, A. M. McLemore

A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Fantabulous Memoir, Kai Cheng Thom

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Akwaeke Emezi

Dead Collections, Isaac Fellman

Disintegrate/Dissociate, Arielle Twist

Tell Me I'm Worthless, Alison Rumfitt

How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life, Jeffrey Marsh

A Lady for a Duke, Alexis Hall

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality, Sarah McBride

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower, Erica Ridley

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World, Kai Cheng Thom

We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film, Tre'vell Anderson

Beyond the Gender Binary, Alok Vaid-Menon

#queer history #queer books #libraries #lgbt books #transgender books #trans books

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tenderlywicked · 4 months

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My books will be on sale on Smashwords until January 1st, in case you want to read something spicy in the new year :) And so will be the novels of my friend and colleague from Evernight Publishing Katherine Wyvern. She's been through a rough patch lately, so it would be really, really nice to cheer her up with sales and/or reviews. By the way, her books A Muse to Live For and Spice & Vanilla were voted Best Transgender Romance(s) of 2018-2019 at the Rainbow Awards!

#mm romance #m/m #gay romance #mm fantasy #transgender books #queer fantasy #queer romance #incubus #paranormal romance

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franticvampirereads · 1 year

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This was the sweetest and most heartfelt graphic novel! I loved Bebe and Annie. I just wanted to hug them both anytime something transphobic or homophobic happened. I also wanted to punch all the transphobic assholes.

I loved that Bebe and Annie got to figure things out together and grow and be themselves. Also, I loved how they were complete opposites! With Bebe being more elegant and Annie being more goth/punk. I also loved that they had a whole team of queer cheerleaders that surrounded them with support and acceptance (after being called out). I really loved Cheer Up! and I would give anything to read more of this story. Cheer Up! is getting five stars from me.

Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

Trans Rights Readathon

Read Queerly 2023: trans main character

PopSugar 2023: a book that has been banned or challenged in any state in 2022

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simplythgirl · 1 year

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BOOK REVIEW☆☆☆☆☆

I just got done with Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White and I really need a sequel or a series!!

If you're looking for a good dystopian horror/gore book with great lgbtq representation and a trans lead I totally recommend it.

So the book is set in a dystopian Future where a religious cult has released a disease that killed majority of the population or turned them into "Graces" basically horrifying man eating nonsters. The main character Benji who is a trans guy escapes the cult but only after the cult turns him into a bio weapon. He finds a group of survivors who are all LGBTQ+ they hold up at a LGBTQ+ center and were there when the world fell apart. The leader is a teen named Nick who is autistic and gay also really attractive to Benji but soon Benji can't know who to trust.

There's great suspense, world building, characters,the descriptions especially body horror are really vivid and amazing, the romantic moments are too cute. Allegories and criticism towards religión morals etc are pretty thought provoking. The characters are pretty likeable although I do wish the characters of color did more.

Nick's autism is really well represented and so is Benji's experience as a not necessarily passing trans man. The author is trans so he writes based on his experience which is why I think it seems so accurate. Benji also struggles a lot with figuring out what he believes since he was raised in such a radical religion which caused the end of humanity. It's heartbreaking and uplifting once he finally figures it out.

It doesn't fully demonize religion though. Other teens still maintain some kind of spirituality even teens who are part of the lgbtq+ community they just explore spirituslity differently than the norm which is really refreshing.

Please know that there's a lot of triggering stuff in the book too though. The author mentions it in his preface but I'll mention them here too just in case.

TW gore, body fluids, death, murder, graphic violence, transphobia, dysphoria, religious abuse, domestic violence, attempted suicide, suicidal thoughts, animal death, deadnamimg, torture, medical trauma, homophobia, emotional abuse, vomit, panic attacks/disorders, war, gun violence, death of a parent, gaslighting, death of a child, religiius bigotry, kidnapping, injury details, gun violence.

P.S Does anyone have book recommendations like this one because I feel like I'm going through withdrawal already 🥺

#transgender books #lgbtqiia+#lgbt fiction #book recommendations #lgbtlove #queer pride #what i read this month #gay romance #dystopia #dystopian books #horror books #please read this book I need fanart #trans pride #trans representation #hell followed with us #apocalypse

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the-bi-library · 11 months

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Bi trans books part 2

Books with bi MCs that are also trans :)

Here is the goodreads list of bi trans books.

Books listed

💕 Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco 💕 The Calyx Charm by May Peterson 💕 Caroline's Heart by Austin Chant 💕 Fake It by Lily Seabrooke 💕 I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver 💕 Lark & Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callender 💕 No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 💕 Home Within Skin by Jem Zero 💕 The Heartbreak Bakery by A.R. Capetta

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