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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.

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

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.

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)

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

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