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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

• Queer Music Heritage - Gay Radio, Lesbian Radio, Transgender Radio
• Platinum Brunette- What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Prettier
• Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
• Tongue in Cheek Gallery

Films

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Tough Guise
• Switch
• Killing Us Softly 3
• Against a Trans Narrative
• Short Bus
• Paris is Burning
• Iron Ladies
• Flawless
• Wonder Boys
• Southern Comfort
• Transamerica
• Breakfast On Pluto
• Just Like A Woman
• Different For Girls
• Wild Side
• Sebastian Cole
• Boys Don't Cry
• Normal
• To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything
• Transgeneration (series)
• Tootsie
• Myra Breckinridge
• Princesa
• The Badge
• Breakfast with Scot
• Venus Boyz
• Wigstock, The Movie
• Romeos (German)
• Soldier's Girl
• Ma Vie En Rose
• Diagnosing Difference
• En Soap (Danish)
• The Aggressives
• Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Beautiful Boxer
• The Crying Game
• Sex of the Stars
• GenderF*ckation: A Gender Emancipation 
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• M. Butterfly
• Goodbye Charlie
• Better Than Chocolate
• Orlando
• Victor/Victoria
• All About My Mother (spanish w/subtitles)
• Revolutionary Girl Utena (anime)
• Ouran High School Host Club (anime) (Favorite!)
• Kino's Journey (anime) (Favorite!)
• Ranma 1/2 (anime)
• Tomboy
• I Want What I Want
• Prelude To A Kiss
• Brother Outsider
• Austin Unbound
• Two Spirits
• Transsexual - Television Tropes & Idioms- contains links to examples of trans* people in film, literature, comic books, music and other media
• Wandering Son (anime)
• She's Real (Worse than Queer)
• Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (documentary)
  
• Melissa Harris-Perry: Being Transgender in America (documentary)
• Intersexion (documentary)
• Common Gender (documentary)
• Red Without Blue (documentary)
• We Are the Youth- Transforming Family (documentary)
• Aynehaye Rooberoo (Facing Mirrors) (Iran)
• Laurence Anyways (Canada)
• Little Ashes (UK/Spain)
• Lovely Man (Indonesia)
• Mia (Argentina)
• The Weight (South Korea)
• One Gun Hill (USA)
• Pankh (India)
• ไม่ได้ขอให้มารัก (It Gets Better) (Thailand)
• Un Buen Hijo (A Good Son) (Mexico)
• Romeos (Germany)
• Franswa Sharl (Australian short film)
• Stray Shadows (Canadian short film)
• The Bella Vista (Uruguay, documentary)
• Truth (documentary)
• The Warias (Australian docmentary)

Sex Positive Porn and Erotica

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

• Trannywood Pictures
• TrannyFags
• Tristan Taormino
• Ignacio Rivera
• Self Serve
• FataleMedia
• Babeland
• Early2Bed
• MyTULIP
• Goodvibes
• The Sensual Vegan
• Butch Boi - Cruising and networking for butches, FtMs, drags kings, bois, and those who love them.
• Vixen Creations
• The Garden
• Mr. S Leather
  
• Come as You Are
  
• Love Piece - Japanese site with good resources
• Blowfish
• Good For Her
• Indie Porn Revolution
  
• TransGuys.TV
  
• Self Made Men; Trans & Sexual
• Queer Porn TV

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