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• MISS MAJOR SPEAKS

  CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK TRANS REVOLUTIONARY

  Meronek, Toshio,

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  The future of Black, queer and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist. 2025 Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Transgender Nonfiction.

• It Came From the Closet

  Queer Reflections on Horror

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  Twenty-five critical essays by queer and trans writers examining queerness in horror films from The Exorcist to Hereditary.

• I'm Afraid of Men

  Shraya, Vivek, 1981-

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  Vivek Shraya, a transgender poet and musician, writes about impacts of toxic masculinity on her life both as a child assigned as male and as an adult woman in a dangerous world. 2019 Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Transgender Nonfiction.

• Fairest

  a Memoir

  Talusan, Meredith,

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  A compelling coming-of-age story that chronicles the intersections of Talusan's experiences as a Filipino child with albinism, a white-passing immigrant and a trans woman. Also available as eBook.

• Something That May Shock and Discredit You

  Lavery, Daniel M.,

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  This witty and hilarious collection of essays explores the topic of gender transition through the languages of pop culture, mythology and Christianity.

• Tomorrow Will Be Different

  Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

  McBride, Sarah, 1990-

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  Trans activist Sarah McBride was the first openly transgender woman to serve as a White House intern and became the first openly transgender person to address a major party convention when she spoke at the Democratic National Convention in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Both Laughed in Pleasure

  the Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991

  Sullivan, Lou, 1951-1991,

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  Trans activist Lou Sullivan was one of the first transgender men to medically transition, as well as one of the first to publicly identify as gay. His diaries from childhood to just before his AIDS-related death at age 39 offer insight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Queer and Pleasant Danger

  a Memoir

  Bornstein, Kate, 1948-

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• A Year Without a Name

  a Memoir

  Dunham, Cyrus Grace,

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  2020 Lambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBTQ Nonfiction.

• Amateur

  a True Story About What Makes a Man

  McBee, Thomas Page,

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  2019 Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Transgender Nonfiction.

• Surpassing Certainty

  What My Twenties Taught Me

  Mock, Janet, 1983-

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  2018 Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Transgender Nonfiction.

• Redefining Realness

  My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

  Mock, Janet, 1983-

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  Mock details her life from early childhood as a mixed race child in Hawaii to her present-day life as a trans activist based in New York. An emotionally rich story that will draw you in with compelling, vivid, complex characterizations of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trans Love

  An Anthology of Transgender and Non-binary Voices

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• Tranny

  Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

  Grace, Laura Jane, 1980-

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• Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith (2011)

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  This collection of essays by current and former inmates explores the impacts of the prison industrial complex on transgender people and argues that transgender liberation and prison abolition go hand in hand. This eBook is available on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane (2019)

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• Me, Myself, They: A Non-Binary Life, by Joshua M. Ferguson (2019)

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• Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us, by Kate Bornstein (2016)

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