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"Author and photographer Susan Kuklin met and interviewed six transgender or gender-neutral young adults and used her considerable skills to represent them thoughtfully and respectfully before, during, and after their personal acknowledgment of gender preference. Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful...
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This is the first paperback edition of a highly acclaimed, warmly received book about transsexuals for their friends, families, co-workers, and helping professionals. Since it's hardcover publication in 1996, True Selves has been acclaimed by transsexuals and the transsexual community as the most important, most accurate, most realistic and useful book ever published on the subject, the first book to combine authoritative information and compassionate...
3) Daddy Boy
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In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they'd been with for ten years-a dominatrix they called Daddy. Living in a tent in the backyard of their marital home, Emerson was startled to realize they didn't know what it meant to be an adult. "We often look to our gender roles as a sort of map for aging," they write. "I wanted to know what the process looked like without that: not man-ness, not-woman-ness." Dizzied by this realization, they turned...
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A cisgender woman and her trans spouse learn, change, and grow together, navigating the transition, the communities they found, and the hostility they faced.
"The person I married, who I am still married to and remain very much in love with, is now a woman, legally named Venus de Mars. But to get to that point was a journey of decades. At the time we didn't know where it would lead, we had no real role models and made it up as we went. Most of this...
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Los desafíos de una ciudadana o ciudadano trans son innumerables. Coleccionamos experiencias y vivencias singulares, pero próximas. La violencia y la jerarquía brutal hacen que las estadísticas de calidad de vida trans sean absurdamente inhumanas.
Aun así florecemos, ante las adversidades, y brillamos nuestras propias capacidades. La "militancia" es la madre de muchas demandas, pero la "salud" trajo el tono de nuestra lucha. Aún luchamos para...
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"Dr. Lange's TRANSformative Mentoring Guidebook is a must read and must use resource for anyone who wants to build transgender/gender-diverse peer groups. We believe you will come to love her work as much as we do."
- Cassandra Williamson, Transgender Rights Activist
Grounded in established research and real-world practice, the TRANSformative Mentoring Guidebook is an essential resource for Peer Mentors providing support services to Gender...
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How does the mapping of Italian culture change when it is charted from the perspective of gender-variant people? Italian Trans Geographies tackles this question by retracing trans and gender-variant experiences within the Italian peninsula and along diasporic routes. The volume adopts a cross-disciplinary approach that combines scholarly analyses with grassroots engagement and creative work and centers the voices of Italian and Italian American transpeople...
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At least two generations of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people have emerged since Becoming a Visible Man was first published in 2004, but the book remains a beloved resource for trans people and their allies. Since the first edition's publication, author Jamison Green's writings and advocacy among business and governmental organizations around the world have led to major changes in the fields of law, medicine, and social policy,...
9) Dream Rooms
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Part essay, part poem, part fever dream journal entry, “Dream Rooms” is a book about personal revolution, about unravelling a worldview to make space for different selves and realities. Set in the years that led up to author River Halen coming out as trans, this collection concerns itself with what sits on the surface of daily life, hidden in plain view, hungry for address-what it means to take a stranger's pet rabbit to the vet in a year of accelerating...
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Bisexual people make up 52% of the LGBTQ+ community, but are 6 times more likely to hide their sexual orientation from friends/family than a gay or lesbian person.
LGBTQ+ Revolution 2.0: A Celebratory Collection of LGBTQ+ Narratives is an open, honest depiction of life from the point of view of people who are part of its community. No matter your identity, you are bound to find bits and pieces of your own experiences within these pages and will discover...
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"A richly evocative collection of photographs by internationally renowned photographer Kike Arnal, Bordered Lives seeks to push back against the transphobic caricatures that have perpetuated discrimination against the transgender community in Mexico. Despite some important advances in recognizing and protecting the rights of its transgender community, including legislation against hate crimes targeting transgender people, discrimination still persists,...
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"Fascinating, thoughtful, and important. [Jeff Chu] captures the fractures and conflict at a moment when the issue of what to do with L.G.B.T. people is tearing Christian denominations apart. Does Jesus Really Love Me? deserves to be widely read." -Dan Savage, New York Times Book Review
In this timely work-part memoir, part investigative analysis-a prize-winning writer explores the explosive and confusing intersection of faith, politics, and sexuality...
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An electrifying and vulnerable memoir that invites readers into an intimate conversation about our digital and physical selves, gender, and belonging.
In My Body Is Distant, Paige Maylott writes about her life - both virtual and IRL - as she explores her authentic self and sexuality through dream-like virtual worlds. While Paige dances in online BDSM clubs and hurls spells on virtual battlefields, she is swept into a fairy tale romance that pushes...
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Embark on a journey to plan the wedding of your dreams with 'Authentic Love: A Guide to Wedding Celebrations for Trans Couples.' Tailored just for you, this comprehensive handbook spans 10 carefully crafted chapters that cover everything from defining your unique vision to navigating family dynamics, choosing trans-friendly vendors, and crafting inclusive rituals.
Discover the secrets to expressing your authentic self in attire choices, family...
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On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profound ways. Back home after the war, however, these intimacies faced both scorn and vicious homophobia. The Mourning After makes sense of this cruel irony, telling the story of the unmeasured toll exacted upon generations of male friendships. John Ibson draws...
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A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siècle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" existed, there were those who experienced their gender in complex ways. Before Trans examines the lives and writings of Jane Dieulafoy (1850—1916), Rachilde (1860—1953), and Marc de Montifaud (1845—1912), three French writers whose gender expression did not conform to nineteenth-century notions of...
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Harry Benjamin (1885–1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to transgender pioneers such as Christine Jorgensen, the 1950s "Ex-GI" turned "Blonde Beauty" media sensation, and in turn, she and other collaborators helped to shape Benjamin's influential 1966 book, The Transsexual Phenomenon. Alison Li's much-needed biography of Benjamin chronicles his passion for hormones...
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What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?
Drawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations-the blind and the transgendered-Blind to Sameness answers provocative questions about...
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A heavily illustrated history of two centuries of male beauty in British culture.
Spanning the decades from the rise of photography to the age of the selfie, this book traces the complex visual and consumer cultures that shaped masculine beauty in Britain, examining the realms of advertising, health, pornography, psychology, sport, and celebrity culture. Paul R. Deslandes chronicles the shifting standards of male beauty in British culture-from...
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