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.
International Transgender Day of Visibility
By Coll Rowe | March 29 2024 | Gender and Sexuality Studies
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)
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Part memoir, part investigative reporting, Diary of a Misfit is a sweeping journalistic saga about sexuality and gender, family trauma, and the redemptive force of love.
“Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs.”
—The New York Times Book Review
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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.
In Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism, Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. Based in part on a course they teach at Syracuse University,
Read moreBy Kara Alaimo, PhD, Associate Professor of Communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University Dear Educators, In the early days of the Internet, The New Yorker ran a cartoon of a dog in front of a computer telling another dog, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The thinking was that the Internet – and then
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