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Transgender Community

Most Recommended Books

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

“It’s a very traumatic book, it illustrates a lot of problems of cross-gender, or gender-variant, living at the time.”

Juliet Jacques, Journalist

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    The Best of Trans Literature, recommended by Susan Stryker

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    Confessions of the Fox
    by Jordy Rosenberg
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    I've Got a Time Bomb
    by Sybil Lamb
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    Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
    by C Riley Snorton
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    Histories of the Transgender Child
    by Julian Gill-Peterson
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    Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility
    edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A Stanley and Johanna Burton

The Best of Trans Literature, recommended by Susan Stryker

Many of the current controversies over transgender rights and identities derive from false beliefs, explains the author and academic Susan Stryker. Here she selects five excellent contemporary trans titles with depth, complexity and heart, to help us reframe what has all too often become a toxic debate

    Juliet Jacques recommends the best Autofiction

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    Trawl
    by B. S. Johnson
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    Stone Butch Blues
    by Leslie Feinberg
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    I Love Dick
    by Chris Kraus
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    How Should A Person Be?
    by Sheila Heti
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    I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic
    by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and David Lagercrantz

Juliet Jacques recommends the best Autofiction

Autofiction is writing that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and fiction. The writer of Trans: A Memoir, Juliet Jacques, picks her top five examples of the genre.

    The best books on Gender Outlaws, recommended by Kate Bornstein

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    Mother Camp
    by Esther Newton
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    Stone Butch Blues
    by Leslie Feinberg
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    The Sandman
    by Neil Gaiman
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    Whipping Girl
    by Julia Serano
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    Gender Outlaws
    by Kate Bornstein and S Bear Bergman (editors)

The best books on Gender Outlaws, recommended by Kate Bornstein

The author, gender theorist and self-described “SM femme tranny dyke” tells us why gender isn’t binary, and recommends books that give long-suppressed voice to the transgender community

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