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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.
50+ Books by Queer People of Color
Fuck Yeah, Gender Studies!- Books - A collection of books about gender, sexuality and sex work
FTM Resource Guide- Books
Barnes & Noble: Gender Studies
Queer Insurrection- Against Equality's Marriage Debate Reading List
My Life as a Feminista- Feminist Texts by Women of Color
Fuck Yeah Femmes- LGBT Movie List
Collection of Books on Gender and Sexuality
Sacramento Transgender Coalition- Books
Trans Youth Equality Foundation- Suggested Reading for Adults
Books for Transgender Teens
Non-Fiction and Creative Writing
- Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us - Kate Bornstein
- My Gender Workbook - Kate Bornstein
- Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and other Outlaws - Kate Bornstein
- The Last Time I Wore A Dress - Dillon (Daphne) Scholinski
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation - Eli Clare
- The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion - Eli Clare
- 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
- Original Plumbing - Trans Male Quarterly
- TransLady Fanzine
- Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
- Trans Liberation - Leslie Feinberg
- Transgender Warriors - Leslie Feinberg
- 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
- GenderOutlaw, The Next Generation - S. Bear Bergman and Kate Bornstein
- Gender Now Coloring Book- Maya Christine Gonzalez
- Masculine Femininities Zine
- Stud Magazine
- Poly in Pictures- The Visual Ramblings of a Polyamorous Probably-20-Something Stick Person
- Nina Here Nor There- My Journey Beyond Gender- Nick Krieger
- (Un)heard: Transmasculine People of Color Speak!- Asher Koleboi
- VoiceMale Magazine
- The Transadvocate
- Queer: the Ultimate LGBT Guide tor Teens- Kathy Belge
- Helping Your Transgender Teen: A Guide for Parents - Irwin Krieger
- Oliver Button Is A Sissy - short story by Tomie DePaola
- Lambda Literary - reviews LGBT literature and supports visibility of emerging authors
- whatever.odt - JD O'Meara (memoir)
- Glitter Tongue: Queer and Trans Love Poems
- Two Spirits, One Heart - Marsha Aizumi
- DUDE Magazine
- Transgender Menace
- Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information & Resource Kit
- Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
- My New Mommy - Lilly Mossiano
- Transguy Comics
- Free To Be Me - online zine based on the theme of 'Taking Action Against Transphobia'
- Khaos Komix
- Hung Jury: Testimonies of Genital Surgery by Transsexual Men - Trystan Theosophus Cotten
Theory and Academia
- The Lifes of Transgender People - Susan Rankin and Genny Beemyn
- 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 - eds. Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins, Clare Howell
- 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
- Queer Phenomenology - Sara Ahmed
- Sex and Sensibility - Debbie Roffman, sex educator. Various books on Sex Education for various ages of youth.
- On Transsexualism and Transsexuality - Site with an interesting perspective, includes articles about gender and psychology.
- Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Issues in Education: Programs, Policies and Practices - James T. Sears, PhD
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation - Eli Clare and Suzanne Pharr
- Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law - Dean Spade
- Trans People's Partnerships: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy - Tam Sanger
- Casebook for Counseling LGBT Persons and Their Families - Sari H. Dworkin and Mark Pope
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
Articles
- The State We’re In: Locations of Coercion and Resistance in Trans Policy, Part I , and Part II - Dean Spade and Paisley Currah (2007).
- The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and Trans Resistance - Dean Spade and Rickke Manazala
- Medical Therapy and HM for Transgender Men, 2005 - Nick Gorton
- Atypical Gender Development
- A Sex Difference in the Human Brain and its Relation to Transsexuality - Zhou J.-N, Hofman M.A, Gooren L.J, Swaab D.F (1997)
- Causes of Transsexualism
- Sexualities Without Genders and Other Queer Utopias - Biddy Martin
- Queer Theory vs. Lesbian Theory - Sally O'Driscoll
- Mackdaddy, Superfly, Rapper: Gender, Race, and Masculinity in the Drag King Scene - Judith Halberstam
- The Washington Transgender Needs Assessment Survey
- Gender Schema Theory - Bem
- The Believer Magazine: Transmissions from Camp Trans - Michelle Tea
- Transgender Kids: Painful Quest To Be Who They Are - Madison Park
- Shunned Hijra: Film Exposes Transgender Life in South Asia - Susan Donaldson James
- Femme 2011: Collection of Femme Articles
Music and Art
Films
Sex Positive Porn and Erotica
Genderqueer-owned, friendly, and/or focused porn and feminist porn resources.
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