Listing of Compiled Transgender Literature
This page contains references and links for every piece of transgender literature I have compiled. This is for literature about trans people or transness by trans people, which may encompass novels, short stories, memoirs, essays, manifestos, blog posts, pamphlets, zines, speeches and addresses, studies, articles, reference works, anthologies, book chapters, entire non-fiction books, and any other work that deals with trans subjects. It will function as an index where I can easily find literature and as a quick and easy way to list literature I want to come back to instead of having thirty tabs open at any given time.
References, when I bother to format them properly, will be in the 17th Edition Chicago Author-Date Style because that's the one I like best. I, however, am not responsible for the accuracy of any citations, and those of you who simply copypaste from this list do so at your own risk, including my future self. Anything I have read I will mark with an asterisk. Works will be categorized first under format, then under how they can be accessed online, whether it be open access, institutional access, or no access. Literature that requires payment for access will be listed under no access. Anything listed under "institutional access" is something that I can access through my institutions; if you would like to peruse any of them you can email me at sburke1@ualberta.ca and I will find a way to get it to you.
Novels
Open Access
Binnie, Imogen. 2013. Nevada. New York: Topside Press. https://cbe1496c-19fe-4403-a6fd-a8f93a82065c.filesusr.com/ugd/dead6c_d1cd1721606b4044bac9f89d4337e1f8.pdf
Feinberg, Leslie. 1992. Stone Butch Blues. Jersey City: Leslie Feinberg. https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/
Institutional Access
No Access
Short Stories and Collections
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
Other Fiction
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
Memoirs, Life Stories, Biographies
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
Essays
Open Access
Bornstein, Kate. 1998. "Welcome to Your Gender Workbook." In My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely, 1-24. New York: Routledge.
Stone, Sandy. 1987, rev. 2014. “The Empire Strikes Back: A Posttranssexual Manifesto.” Sandy Stone. https://sandystone.com/empire-strikes-back.pdf.
Haraway, Donna J. 1991. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” In Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 149–81. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.5749/minnesota/9780816650477.001.0001.
Institutional Access
No Access
Non-Fiction Books, Theory
Open Access
Institutional Access
Bornstein, Kate. 2013. My New Gender Workbook : A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity. London: Taylor & Francis Group. Accessed November 13, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central.
No Access
Zines, Blog Posts
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
Interviews, Speeches
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
Reference Works
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
Studies, Articles
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
Miscellanea
Open Access
Institutional Access
No Access
- Trans: What's in a Name, a chapter from the book Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability by Jack Halberstam, 2018
- Trans-Centrism, a manifesto written by my friend Wizerd, 2020
- Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, a book edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth, 2014, especially the sections that are responses from trans people to a survey about their identity.
- Stone Butch Blues, a book by Leslie Fienberg, 1993
- The Null HypotheCis, a blog post by Natalie Reed, 2012 -- I discovered this a few years ago and it has stayed with me since
- The Transfeminism Manifesto, a feminist manifesto by Emi Koyama, 2001
- "They/Them/Theirs", a song on the album Imaginary Life by Worriers, 2015 -- the song itself and the entire album are absolute bangers
- Nevada, a book by Imogen Binnie, 2013 -- it was depressing but also made me feel something
- Dicks & Weewees, the back cover of the zine Gendertrash by Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra-Phillipa MacKay, 1993 -- fair warning, contains slurs, and also pretty cool
- Not Two, by Avery Erickson, a chapter in the book Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity , edited by Micah Rajunov and Scott Duane, 2019 -- honestly I could probably cite the entire book because it's an anthology of diverse non-binary experiences but I've decided to hold back
- Barren, a short comic by Tess Scilipoti, 2020
- Production, circulation and deconstruction of gender norms in LGBTQ speech practices, a journal article by Luca Greco, 2012
- Making a Name for Yourself: Neo-identities and Tumblr, a book chapter by Christine Feraday, in Youth Mediations and Affective Relations, edited by Susan Driver and Natalie Coulter, 2018
- A specific infographic, that I cannot find at the moment, of a quote from a trans man about identity. It was, paraphrased, "I am not a man trapped in a woman's body, but a man trapped in society's perception of what a man should look like." I cannot find it and it frustrates me greatly, because it helped expand my understanding of gender.
- Trapped in the Wrong Body, an essay blog post by rserven, published 2019 but first written in 1995
- The Social Elements of TGNC’s Individual’s Journey to Living Authentically, a chapter by Donna B. Riley, in Transgender Medicine, edited by Leonid Poretsky and Wylie C. Hembree, 2019
- Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions of the Transgender Body in the 21st Century, a masters' thesis by Jessica Rae Fisher, 2019 -- discusses truscum, which is relevant, though I'm not sure how much I want to elaborate on that for a majority-cis audience who could get the wrong idea