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• Gender Euphoria

  Stories of Joy From Trans, Non-binary and Intersex Writers

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  GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s birth-assigned gender. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition center on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tomorrow Will Be Different

  Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

  McBride, Sarah, 1990-

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  The national press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign presents a memoir about her struggles with gender identity and relationships against a backdrop of the transgender equality movement. Available in print and eBook formats.

• Burn the Page

  a True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

  Roem, Danica,

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  The first openly trans person elected to a U.S. state legislature discusses her lonely and closeted childhood and how she re-wrote her own future by deciding to run for office.

• Gender Queer

  a Memoir

  Kobabe, Maia,

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  In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pageboy

  a Memoir

  Page, Elliot, 1987-

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  Canadian actor/director/producer Elliot Page tells his story of untangling himself from the expectations of others on his journey to being his true self as a transgender man. Available in print, audiobook, eBook, and eAudiobook formats.

• Fairest

  a Memoir

  Talusan, Meredith,

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  A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love.

• Before We Were Trans

  a New History of Gender

  Heyam, Kit, 1990-

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  This global history of gender nonconformity examines the stories of people from antiquity to the present who defied categorization and looks to the past to uncover new possibilities for possible trans futures. Available in print and eBook formats.

• Reclaiming Two-spirits

  Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, & Sovereignty in Native America

  Smithers, Gregory D., 1974-

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  Drawing on written sources, archaeological evidence, art and oral storytelling, a sweeping history of indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality and resistance reveals how, despite centuries of colonialism, Two-Spirit people are reclaiming their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black on Both Sides

  a Racial History of Trans Identity

  Snorton, C. Riley,

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  Drawing on 19th and 20th-century medical illustrations, pickup notices, fugitive-slave narratives, true-crime books, documentary films, and poetry, the author analyzes the connections between blackness and trans identity in the context of ongoing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are Mermaids

  Poems

  Burt, Stephanie, 1971-

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  Stephanie Burt's poems in We Are Mermaids are never just one thing. Instead, they revel in their multiplicity, their interconnectedness, their secret powers to become much more than they at first seem.

• Homie

  Poems

  Smith, Danez,

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  Rooted in the loss of one of Smith's close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Transgender History

  the Roots of Today's Revolution

  Stryker, Susan,

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  A chronological account of transgender theory documents major movements, writings, and events, offering insight into the contributions of key historical figures while discussing treatments of transgenderism in pop culture

• Yes, You Are Trans Enough

  My Transition From Self-loathing to Self-love

  Violet, Mia,

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  This is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who never fitted in. Transgender blogger Mia Violet reflects on her life and how at 26 she came to finally realise she was 'trans enough' to be transgender, after years of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Trans Man Walks Into a Gay Bar

  a Journey of Self (and Sexual) Discovery

  Nicholas, Harry,

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  This unflinchingly honest memoir shines new light on the complex intersections of gender identity, sexuality, sex and queerness. Join Harry on his personal journey amongst the fraught and contradictory worlds of contemporary gay culture and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Body I Wore

  a Memoir

  Goetsch, Diana,

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  A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself. Available in print and eBook formats.

• The Transgender Issue

  Trans Justice Is Justice for All

  Faye, Shon

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  Uncovering the reality of what it means to trans in a transphobic society, this brilliant introduction to trans politics gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

  a Resource by and for Transgender Communities

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  What does it mean to be trans? A common understanding of transgender, or trans for short, is that a person's gender differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. However, many see the idea of being trans as more complicated -- as an active…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Jane Crow

  the Life of Pauli Murray

  Rosenberg, Rosalind, 1946-

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  This comprehensive and accessible biography of 20th-century lawyer and African American activist Pauli Murray is a detailed chronicle of her life and achievements, along with a history of the civil rights and feminist movements and early views of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Female Husbands

  a Trans History

  Manion, Jen, 1974-

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  In 1746, Charles Hamilton of Glastonbury, England found what they were looking for - Mary, a curious young woman who was taken by their charms. With the approval of the girl's aunt, the pair were joined in marriage and set off on a honeymoon.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes

  and the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience

  Playdon, Zoe-Jane,

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  This life story of an aristocratic trans man whose secret 1968 legal case, which forced him to defend his male status, had a profound impact on trans rights for decades is a singular contribution to trans history and the ongoing struggle for trans…Read moreRead more of this annotation