Archived Essays on Gender & Sexual Activism





Disclaimer: These articles are historical documents. They were written in 2000-2004. The terminology and vocabulary used dates from that era, and was acceptable at that time. The descriptions of people and their interesting customs are descriptions of the east coast transgender communities that I hung out in at that time. If it doesn’t look like what you know today, that’s because it isn’t. I refuse to rewrite these documents because someday it will be important to have them available for historical reasons. In addition, I do not claim to be an academic or scholar, and I do not claim to speak for anyone except myself and all the transfolks who have given me permission to speak for them, which is quite a few. Have a nice day.




A short list of FTM related books

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Becoming a Visible Man

Jamison Green
Vanderbilt University Press, 2004
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Body Alchemy:
Transsexual Portraits

Loren Cameron
Cleis Press, 1996
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Female Masculinity

Judith Halberstam
Duke University Press, 1998
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FTM:
Female-To-Male
Transsexuals in Society

Holly Devor
Indiana University Press, 1997.
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Gender Outlaw:
On Men, Women and
the Rest of Us

Kate Bornstein
Vintage, 1995
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Gender Shock:
Exploding Myths of
Male and Female

Phyllis Burke
Doubleday, 1996
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Read My Lips:
Sexual Subversion and
the End of Gender

Riki Wilchins
Firebrand Books, 1995
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S/He

Minnie Bruce Pratt
Firebrand Books, 1995
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Self Made Men:
Identity, Embodiment and Recognition
Among Transsexual Men

Henry Rubin
Vanderbilt University Press, 2003.
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Sex Changes:
The Politics of Transgenderism

Patrick Califia
Cleis Press, 2003
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The Last Time I Wore a Dress

Daphne Scholinski
Riverhead Books, 1998
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The Phallus Palace:
Female to Male Transsexuals

Dean Kotula
Alyson Publications, 2002
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Trans Forming Families:
Real Stories About
Transgendered Loved Ones

Ari Ishtar Lev
& Mary Boenke (eds)
Oak Knoll Press, 2003
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Trans Liberation:
Beyond Pink or Blue

Leslie Feinberg
Beacon Press, 1999
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Transgender Warriors:
Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

Leslie Feinberg
Beacon Press, 1997
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Transmen and FTMs:
Identities, Bodies, Genders,
and Sexualities

Jason Cromwell
University of Illinois Press, 1999



Female-to-Male Transgenderism in Fiction

[COVER]
The Marketplace Series

Laura Antoniou
Mystic Rose Books, 1999-2001
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Best Transgender Erotica

Hanne Blank & Raven Kaldera
Circlet Press, 2002
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Lythande

Marion Zimmer Bradley
Daw Books, 1986
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A Civil Campaign

Lois McMaster Bujold
Baen, 2000
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The Last Report on the Miracles
at Little No Horse: A Novel

Louise Erdritch
Perennial, 2002
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Stone Butch Blues: A Novel

Leslie Feinberg
Alyson Publications, 2004
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Lies and Scars:
B&D That Takes You
Over the Edge

Kaldera, Raven
Sizzler, 2004
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Trumpet: A Novel

Jackie Kay
Vintage, 2000
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Fall On Your Knees

Anne-Marie MacDonald
Touchstone, 2002
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Words Heard In Silence

T. Novan and Taylor Rickard
Cavalier Press, 2004

Larque on the Wing

Nancy Springer
Avon Books, 1995
[COVER]
Genderflex:
Sexy Stories on the Edge
and In-Between

Cecilia Tan (ed)
Circlet Press, 1996
[COVER]
Crygender

Thomas T. Thomas
Baen, 1991
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Sacred Country

Rose Tremain
Washington Square Press, 1995




Disclaimer: These articles are historical documents. They were written in 2000-2004. The terminology and vocabulary used dates from that era, and was acceptable at that time. The descriptions of people and their interesting customs are descriptions of the east coast transgender communities that I hung out in at that time. If it doesn’t look like what you know today, that’s because it isn’t. I refuse to rewrite these documents because someday it will be important to have them available for historical reasons. In addition, I do not claim to be an academic or scholar, and I do not claim to speak for anyone except myself and all the transfolks who have given me permission to speak for them, which is quite a few. Have a nice day.