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Books and Articles

These works are some of our favorites. To find more, the internet is a great resource!

Transacademics.org - Extremely useful site with many resources including a reference library and educational aids.

 

Non-Fiction and Creative Writing

  • Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us, Kate Bornstein
  • The Last Time I Wore A Dress, Dillon (Daphne) Scholinski
  • Read My Lips, Riki Anne Wilchins
  • Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Julia Serano
  • Genderqueer, Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary, Joan Nestle, Riki Anne Wilchins and Clare Howell
  • From the Inside Out, Morty Diamond
  • Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
  • Trans Liberation - Leslie Feinberg
  • Transgender Warriors - Leslie Feinberg
  • Becoming a Visible Man, Jamison Green
  • Two Truths and a Lie, Scott Turner Schofield
  • Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, Loren Cameron
  • M. Butterfly, David Henry Hwang
  • Sublime Mutations, Del Lagrace Volcano
  • The Gender Frontier: Mariette Pathy Allen, Mariette Pathy Allen
  • She's Not the Man I Married, Helen Boyd
  • My Husband, Betty, Helen Boyd
  • Luna, Julie Anne Peters
  • S/he, Minnie Bruce Pratt
  • Boys Like Her: Transfictions, Taste This
  • Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine, Noelle Howey
  • Sacred Country, Rose Tremain
  • She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Jennifer Finney Boylan
  • Transgender Voices - Lori B. Girshick 
  • Normal - Amy Bloom
  • Sexual Metamorphosis - Jonathan Ames
  • What Becomes You - Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz
  • The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals
  • FTM Sex Guide

Theory and Academia

  • Queer Theory, Gender Theory, Riki Anne Wilchins
  • A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory, Nikki Sullivan
  • The Transgender Studies Reader, ed. Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle
  • Transgender Rights, eds. Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter, Richard Juang
  • In a Queer Time & Place, Judith Halberstam
  • That's Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Mattilda Bernstein
  • Nobody Passes; Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, Mattilda Bernstein
  • GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, Joan Nestle (Editor), Riki Wilchins (Editor), Clare Howell (Editor)
  • PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Carol Queen
  • The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, Michael Warner
  • Myth and Sexuality, Jamake Highwater
  • Undoing Gender, Judith Butler
  • Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
  • Gender & Thought, Psychological Perspectives, Springer-Verlag
  • Psychology of Gender Identity, ed. Janice W. Less
  • Feminism Meets Queer Theory, ed. Elizabeth Weed and Naomi Schor
  • Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism, Pat Califia
  • Female Masculinity - Judith Halberstam
  • Sex and Sensibility.net - Debbie Roffman, sex educator. Various books on Sex Education for various ages of youth.
  • Transsexual Women's Resource - Site with an interesting perspective, includes articles about gender and psychology.

Articles


Films

Some reccomended movies! For great streaming films and lectures, check out Transreel.com

  • Hedwig and the Angry Inch
  • Tough Guise
  • Killing Us Softly 3
  • Short Bus
  • Paris is Burning
  • Iron Ladies
  • Sebastian Cole
  • Boys Don't Cry
  • To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
  • Transgeneration (series)
  • Tootsie
  • Breakfast with Scot
  • Venus Boyz
  • Wigstock, The Movie
  • Soldier's Girl
  • Ma Vie En Rose
  • The Aggressives
  • Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
  • Beautiful Boxer
  • The Crying Game
  • Sex of the Stars
  • Southern Comfort
  • The Rocky Horror Picture Show
  • M. Butterfly
  • Victor/Victoria
  • All About My Mother (spanish w/subtitles)
  • Revolutionary Girl Utena (yes, it's a crazy anime, but it's fun to analyze... plus it's anime. you can't go wrong)
  • Oran High School Host Club (anime) (Favorite!)
  • Kino's Journey (anime) (Favorite!)
  • Ranma 1/2 (anime)


Sex Positive Porn Companies

Genderqueer-owned, friendly, and/or focused porn and feminist porn resources.

 


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