International Transgender Day of Visibility

By Coll Rowe | March 29 2024 | Gender and Sexuality Studies

In celebration of International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31st, we are sharing books that give insight on the lives of transgender people, their journeys through social and medical transition, and their individual perspectives and personal experiences as they live as their authentic selves.

Dear Senthuran
Dear Senthuran
A Black Spirit Memoir
Akwaeke Emezi
9780593329207

A full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works cut to the quick of the spiritual self” (Esquire)

$18.00 US
Jun 07, 2022
Paperback
240 Pages
Riverhead Books
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist
Ben Barres
9780262539548
A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.
$17.95 US
Oct 20, 2020
Paperback
160 Pages
The MIT Press
Fairest
Fairest
A Memoir
Meredith Talusan
9780525561323

“Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs.”
—The New York Times Book Review

$18.00 US
Jun 08, 2021
Paperback
320 Pages
Penguin Books
Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Letters to Lost Souls
Kai Cheng Thom
9780593594988
Hailed by The New York Times as an “intimate expression of self-acceptance and forgiveness, tenderly written to fellow trans women and others.”
$18.00 US
Aug 01, 2023
Paperback
176 Pages
Dial Press Trade Paperback
Gender Outlaw
Gender Outlaw
On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us
Kate Bornstein
9781101973240
“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity.
$18.00 US
Nov 15, 2016
Paperback
320 Pages
Vintage
Unbound
Unbound
Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity
Arlene Stein
9781101972496

Unbound is an intimate portrait of a new generation of transmasculine individuals as they undergo gender transitions.  In this powerful, timely, and eye-opening account, Stein draws from dozens of interviews with transgender people and their friends and families, as well as with activists and medical and psychological experts.

$22.00 US
May 14, 2019
Paperback
352 Pages
Vintage

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