I’m working on this list of titles by and about trans and genderqueer folks. It won’t be exhaustive, of course, but I do hope to create a nice little list. Students taking Trans and Genderqueer Literature will not, by any means, be expected to read everything on this list. This is simply a resource of some of the brilliant work being done by trans and genderqueer folks. Please do let me know the names of texts, authors, or artists I may have missed. Thank you!

Poetry:

• Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Edited by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson.
• and then entwine. Jai Arun Ravine.
• The Definition of Joy; Coming to Life; Transmigration; Book of Anna; Alternatives to History; Psalms. Joy Ladin.
• Boy with Flowers. Ely Shipley.
• No Gender: Reflections on the Life and Work of kari edwards. Edited by E. Grinnell, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Erika Kaufman.
• Seasonal Velocities. Ryka Aoki.
• Choke; Love Poem to Androgyny; the lake has no saint. Stacey Waite.
• Stealth. Samuel Ace and Maureen Seaton.
• Since I Moved In. Trace Peterson.
• Gephyromania; territories of folding; spirare. TC Tolbert.
• Lyric Sexology; Wanting in Arabic. Trish Salah.
• Ecodeviance; The Book of Frank; A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon. CA Conrad.
• Life in a Box is a Pretty Life; Discipline; A Gathering of Matter/A Matter of Gathering. Dawn Lundy Martin.
• What’s Personal is Being Here with All of You. Ari Banias.
• Sir. HR Hegnauer.
• The Marrow’s Telling; Exile and Pride. Eli Clare.
• Forensics of the Chamber; Long Past the Presence of Common; The Yet to be Pronounced Pronouns. j/j hastain.
• Object with Man’s Face; Telephone. Jen Jay Besemer.
• Ghost Box. Emerson Whitney.
• Terror Matrix. Zoe Tuck.
• almost any shit will do. Emji Spero.
• The Spectral Wilderness. Oliver Bendorf.
• Last Psalm at Sea Level. Meg Day.

Fiction:

• The Collection. Edited by Tom Léger & Riley MacLeod.
• Man Alive. Thomas Page McBee.
• He Mele A Hilo. Ryka Aoki.
• Nevada. Imogen Binnie.
• Stone Butch Blues. Leslie Feinberg.
• Sacred Country. Rose Tremain.
• I am J. Cris Beam.
• Choir Boy. Charlie Anders.
• Roving Pack. Sassafrass Lowry.
• Some of the Parts; The Beaufort Diaries; Lipshitz Six or Two Angry Blondes. T Cooper.
• Trumpet by Jackie Kay
• Kill Marguerite and Other Stories. Megan Milks.

Non-fiction (creative):

• Redefining Realness. Janet Mock.
• Gender Outlaw. Kate Bornstein.
• A Queer and Pleasant Danger. Kate Bornstein.
• Real Man Adventures. T Cooper.
• I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman. Toni D. Newman.
• The Testosterone Files. Max Wolf Valerio.
• Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender. Nick Krieger.
• She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders. Jennifer Finney Boylan.
• My Gender Workbook. Kate Bornstein.
• The Last Time I Wore a Dress. Dylan Scholinski.
• Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Trans Memoirs. Edited by Jonathan Ames.
• My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser. Helen Boyd.
• The Woman I Was Not Born to Be: A Transsexual Journey. Aleshia Brevard.
• Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels. Mx. Justin Vivian Bond.
• Conundrum. Jan Morris.
• Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders. Joy Ladin.
• Balancing on the Mechitza: Transgender in Jewish Community. Noach Dzmura.
• Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Edited by Mattilda a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore.
• That’s Revolting: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation.  Edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore.
• “Self Made Man” essays. Thomas Page McBee on The Rumpus.
• My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely. Kate Bornstein.

Non-fiction (theory/history):

• The Transgender Studies Reader (volume I or II). Edited by Dr. Susan Stryker and Dr. Stephen Whittle and Dr. Aren Aizura. Routledge. 2006, 2013.
• Transgender History. Susan Stryker.
• Transliberation: Beyond Pink or Blue. Leslie Feinberg.
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Feminism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Julia Serrano.
• Queer Theory, Gender Theory. Riki Wilchins.
• In a Queer Time and Place. Judith Jack Halberstam.
• Female Masculinity. Judith Halberstam.
• The Queer Art of Failure. Jack Halberstam.
• Gender Trouble. Judith Butler.
• Transgender Warriors:  Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Leslie Feinberg.
• Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law. Dean Spade.

Film:

• Two-Spirits (documentary about murdered Navajo teen Fred Martinez)
• A Girl Like Me: the Gwen Araujo Story (documentary about murdered transwoman in California)
• Tom/Trans/Thai
• Stud Life
• Beautiful Boxer
• To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything
• Ma Vie en Rose
• By Hook or By Crook
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Southern Comfort
• The Aggressives
• Call Me Malcolm
• It Gets Messy in Here
• Wildness

Visual/Performance/Dance Artists:

• Jai Arun Ravine
• D’Lo
• Wu Tsang
• Rae Strozzo
• Del la Grace Volcano
• Simon Croft
• Dylan Scholinski
• Loren Cameron
• Amos Mac
• Sean Dorsey
• Tobaron Waxman
• Kamari, aka Lyrikal
• Diamond Stylz