“WE ARE HERE” 2025 Trans Reading Challenge - hosted by hedonsgaybookshelf

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Dances of Time and Tenderness by Julian Carter

Dances of Time and Tenderness

Julian Carter

144 pages • paperback

nonfiction essays
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

343 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows by Christine Burns

Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows

Christine Burns

500 pages • digital • 2018 user-added

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ challenging informative slow-paced
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano

390 pages • paperback • 2007

nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery

422 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction art history lgbtqia+ challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Gender/Fucking: the Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body by Florence Ashley

Gender/Fucking: the Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body

Florence Ashley

167 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir politics sociology emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

340 pages • paperback • 2004

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ sociology emotional reflective slow-paced
Trans Girl Suicide Museum by Hannah Baer

Trans Girl Suicide Museum

Hannah Baer

145 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction essays gender lgbtqia+ memoir challenging informative reflective medium-paced
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World by Kai Cheng Thom

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

155 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ memoir poetry challenging hopeful reflective medium-paced
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

354 pages • digital • 2006

nonfiction essays gender reflective medium-paced