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

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Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue by Leslie Feinberg

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

Leslie Feinberg

160 pages • paperback • 1998

nonfiction feminism gender lgbtqia+ challenging reflective fast-paced
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Thomas Page McBee

204 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity by Chloë Brushwood Rose, Anna Camilleri

Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity

Chloë Brushwood Rose, Anna Camilleri

176 pages • paperback • 2003

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ challenging inspiring lighthearted slow-paced
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality by Lawrence Schimel, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen

PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality

Lawrence Schimel, Kate Bornstein, Carol Queen

198 pages • paperback • 1997

nonfiction gender challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme by Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme

Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman

312 pages • paperback • 2011

nonfiction essays gender lgbtqia+ informative inspiring reflective fast-paced
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric A. Stanley

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Eric A. Stanley

365 pages • paperback • 2011

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley

264 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law by Dean Spade

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

Dean Spade

248 pages • paperback • 2011

nonfiction lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation by Phoenix Robles, Zak Krevitt, Josh Pacheco, Qween Jean, Mikelle Street, Budi, Brandon English, Deb Fong, Snake Garcia, Souls of a Movement, Sean Waltrous, Erica Lansner, Cindy Trinh, Chae Kihn, Daniel Lehrhaupt, Ruvan Wijesooriya, Ramie Ahmed, Jarrett Robertson, Ryan McGinley, Raquel Willis, Katie Godowski, Robert Hamada, Lucy Baptiste, Madison Swart, Joela Rivera, Stas Ginzburg, David Zung, Caroline Mardok

Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation

Phoenix Robles, Zak Krevitt, Josh Pacheco, Qween Jean, Mikelle Street, Budi, Brandon English, Deb Fong, Snake Garcia, Souls of a Movement, Sean Waltrous, Erica Lansner, Cindy Trinh, Chae Kihn, Daniel Lehrhaupt, Ruvan Wijesooriya, Ramie Ahmed, Jarrett Robertson, Ryan McGinley, Raquel Willis, Katie Godowski, Robert Hamada, Lucy Baptiste, Madison Swart, Joela Rivera, Stas Ginzburg, David Zung, Caroline Mardok

224 pages • paperback

nonfiction emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling

Queer Times, Black Futures

Sexual Cultures

Kara Keeling

288 pages • hardcover • 2019

nonfiction race challenging informative reflective medium-paced