Books and Films

These works are some of our favorites. To find more, the internet is a great resource!

 

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • (Un)heard: Transmasculine People of Color Speak!- Asher Koleboi
  • VoiceMale Magazine
  • The Transadvocate
  • whatever.odt – JD O’Meara (memoir)
  • Glitter Tongue: Queer and Trans Love Poems
  • Two Spirits, One Heart – Marsha Aizumi
  • Transgender Menace
  • Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
  • 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.
  • Trans People’s Partnerships: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy – Tam Sanger
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire

 

 Articles

 

Music and Art

 

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
  • Two Spirits
  • Transsexual – Television Tropes & Idioms– contains links to examples of trans* people in film, literature, comic books, music and other media
  • She’s Real (Worse than Queer)
  • Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (documentary)
  • Intersexion (documentary)

Sex Positive Porn and Erotica

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

 

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