Gender studies: transgender people Books

Book SynopsisA new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism.Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought.Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how,

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Book SynopsisAn adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to ''create more space'' in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book.How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists.Trade Review"Here praxiography moves into history. The result is stunning. Learn how sexed bodies and selves-with-a-sex got crafted in 19th century western Europe. Revel in the productivity of doubt. And enjoy the intellectual pleasure throughout." Annemarie Mol, Prof. Anthropology of the Body, University of Amsterdam -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionI – Inscription 1. Secrecy and disclosure: Politics of containment2. Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self3. Herculine BarbinII – Body4. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb5. Justine Jumas: Conflicting body politics6. The dislodgement of the personIII – Self7. Sex assignment around 1900: From a legal to a clinical issue 8. The turn inwards9. Scripting the self: N. O. Body’s autobiographyConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2018 U.S. History PROSE AwardThe incredible stories of how trans men assimilated into mainstream communities in the late 1800sIn 1883, Frank Dubois gained national attention for his life in Waupun, Wisconsin. There he was known as a hard-working man, married to a young woman named Gertrude Fuller. What drew national attention to his seemingly unremarkable life was that he was revealed to be anatomically female. Dubois fit so well within the small community that the townspeople only discovered his true sex when his former husband and their two children arrived in the town searching in desperation for their departed wife and mother. At the turn of the twentieth century, trans men were not necessarily urban rebels seeking to overturn stifling gender roles. In fact, they often sought to pass as conventional men, choosing to live in small towns where they led ordinary lives, aligning themselves with the expectations of their communities. They were, in a word, unexceptional. In TruTrade ReviewSkidmore offers a three-fold critique. First, she provides well-drawn and sympathetic profiles of the compelling trans men considered; second, she offers a critical assessment of the press of the day and how it helped foster a new morality . . .and third, she engages in an ongoing critique of her field of study, LGBT scholarship. * New York Journal of Books *In True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century, Emily Skidmore describes how manhood in that day was as much a moral status as a sexual category. . .an especially intriguing . . . analysis. * Inside Higher Education *Dynamic, compelling, and wholly original,True Sexis an invaluable addition to LGBTQ studies. * Foreword Reviews *Afascinating, humanizing look into the lives of trans men at the turn of the 20th century. * Library Journal *Though an influx of bathroom bills would have us believe that disrupting the gender binary is a new phenomenon, trans people have been hereliving, assimilating, and creating families that protected them . . . Youll be engrossed by their lives, and how Skidmore interweaves American history with their decisions. * Bitch Magazine *True Sex is an important addition to queer and gender history and an insightful study of trans men that . . . challenge[s] several prevailing gender and queer theories. This brilliantly written and meticulously researched book should be part of all university gender curriculums. * The Washington Bookreview *A lucid, compelling, and counterintuitive exploration of transmen at the turn of the twentieth century. In showing that many transmen were accepted by their communities, both in life and in death, Skidmore complicates a number of the accepted tenets of queer historiography: that queer people were persecuted, that sexology informed that persecution, and that queer people necessarily flocked to places where they might find community with people like themselves. -- Nicholas Syrett, Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of KansasEmily Skidmore's True Sex is an important addition to the literature on transgender history, offering a fresh approach to studying the subject and a wealth of new information that will help to broaden our understanding of sex and gender roles. * Popmatters *In this important account of the 'unexceptional queerness' of transmasculine people living, loving, workingand dying in non-metropolitian locations throughout the United States around the turn of the last century, Emily Skidmore makes brilliant use of the searchable online databases of historical newspapers that have revolutionized our understanding of the past to tell us a newstory about what the world was once like. -- Susan Stryker,founding co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies QuarterlyThe best sort of history surprising and delightful. Emily Skidmores True Sex reveals ordinary American communities at the turn of the twentieth century to have been much queerer than commonly imagined. By reconstructing the lives of trans men whose stories appeared in newspapers between 1870 and 1930, Skidmore makes a major contribution to our knowledge of queer history. -- Rachel Hope Cleves,University of VictoriaTracking revelations of true sex in the decades around the turn of the twentieth-century U.S., Emily Skidmore recovers a history full of surprises: one in which people assigned female at birth lived ordinary lives as men, often in small towns and rural outposts. Newspaper revelations about trans men, Skidmore proposes, invited debate about queer embodiment and the porous boundaries of the gender binary. True Sex contains provocations and insights for queer history, for trans history, and for American history. -- Regina Kunzel,author of Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American SexualityTrue Sex is a truly phenomenal book. Expansive in scope and implication, Emily Skidmores meticulously researched study of gender non-conformity in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States is all the more impressive for its dogged insistence that local entanglements often mattered more than expert opinion where Americans shifting beliefs about gender and sexual difference were concerned. A major contribution to the study of rural and small-town Americas little explored queer history, and an equally significant contribution to our understanding of rural and small-town Americas crucially important place in the history of queer life in the United States. -- Colin R. Johnson,author of Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural AmericaThe personal accounts are presented in compelling detail and with compassion, living up to the promise of intimacy suggested by the cover photo of trans man Kenneth Lisonbee and his wife Stella Harper from the unlikely year of 1929. * The Gay & Lesbian Review *True Sex explores the varied histories of American trans men long before that designation even existed. Reviewing newspapers and the literature of the field then known as sexology, as well as census data, court records, and trial transcripts, Skidmore weaves a tale of American gender that is far more complex than many might think, one that reveals that [gender]has never been a fixed reality. * Timeline.com *This book is not just lucid and easy to follow but also compelling and eye opening because it shows that our past generations were not only tolerant to non-normative sexual practices but also celebrated sexual inversions and differences. * Sexuality and Culture *

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of new obstacles and hurdles. Histories of the Transgender Child shatters this myth, uncovering a previously unknown twentieth-century history when transgender children not only existed but preexisted the term transgender and its predecessors, playing a central role in the medicalization of trans people, and all sex and gender.Beginning with the early 1900s when children with “ambiguous” sex first sought medical attention, to the 1930s when transgender people began to seek out doctors involved in altering children’s sex, to the invention of the category gender, and finally the 1960s and ’70s when, as the field institutionalized, transgender children began to take hormones, change their names, and even access gender confirmation, Julian Gill-Peterson reconstructs the medicalization and racialization of children’s bodies. Throughout, they foreground the racial history of medicine that excludes black and trans of color children through the concept of gender’s plasticity, placing race at the center of their analysis and at the center of transgender studies.Until now, little has been known about early transgender history and life and its relevance to children. Using a wealth of archival research from hospitals and clinics, including incredible personal letters from children to doctors, as well as scientific and medical literature, this book reaches back to the first half of the twentieth century—a time when the category transgender was not available but surely existed, in the lives of children and parents.Trade Review"Histories of the Transgender Child is a tour de force contribution to transgender studies, tracing little-noticed pathways from the past toward convergences that increasingly take center stage in the next field. An elegant combination of sophisticated theorization with equally sophisticated attention to archival and historical materials, this is one of the best books in trans studies in recent years."—Susan Stryker, University of Arizona"Jules Gill-Peterson excavates the history of medicine, introducing readers to a century’s worth of gender nonconforming youth. This remarkable book is not merely a backward glance; it offers an urgent call to reimagine trans as a form of self-knowledge children can hold and for an ethics of care that focuses on affirmation."—Tey Meadow, author of Trans Kids"Meticulously researched and compellingly argued, this book is a welcome addition to a number of fields, including trans of color critique, childhood studies, and queer and trans history."—C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides"This work fills a gap in queer history; older trans, intersex, and nonbinary people who work through the dense, theoretical prose may find their experiences reflected in Gill-Peterson’s history, and younger ones may discover that their “uncovering of a century of untold stories” provides a tether to an underexplored legacy."—Publishers Weekly "You have to start somewhere. Indeed, few things begin in a vacuum: you need an idea, then experiments and practice to create a masterpiece. Nothing magically just appears. And in the new book “Histories of the Transgender Child” by Jules Gill-Peterson,you’ll see that that’s true, too, about knowledge and change." —South Florida Gay News "For children’s literature scholars who work on gender and sexuality, this book is essential reading for its insights that transgender children are not new and that binary sex and gender are extremely recent and fragile ideas reliant on a dehumanizing, racially coded conceptualization of the child as plasticity." —The Lion and the UnicornTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Toward a Trans-of-Color Critique of Medicine1. The Racial Plasticity of Gender and the Child2. Before Transsexuality: The Transgender Child from the 1900s to the 1930s3. Sex in Crisis: Intersex Children in the 1950s and the Invention of Gender4. From Johns Hopkins to the Midwest: Transgender Childhood in the 1960s5. Transgender Boyhood, Race, and Puberty in the 1970sConclusion: How to Bring Your Kids Up TransAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisAlthough imagined as a queer subcultural practice, drag seems to be everywhere we look: from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment, from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstream—largely due to the intense, global popularity of reality TV competition RuPaul’s Drag Race—some kinds of gender-based performance fall out of the purview of what we (could) call drag. Decolonize Drag details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various types of expression, and tracks how contemporary drag, including that on Drag Race, both replicates and disrupts these institutional hierarchies. This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. It also features the voice of Khubchandani's drag alter ego, judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan. From the firsthand perspective of a drag artist, LaWhore describes encounters with depoliticized versions of drag that leave her disappointed and perplexed, and prompts Khubchandani for context and analysis. Their dynamic sets the tone for the book, investigating how drag—and gender more broadly—has been privatized and delimited so that it's only available to certain people. Decolonize Drag argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender, and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.Trade Review"Who knew a critique of the political economy of drag could be so fun? Every chapter packs a pun(ch)! This multi-layered analysis is timely, worldmaking, and most importantly—glamorous."—Alok Vaid-Menon, poet, artist, comedian, fashion icon, and author of Beyond the Gender Binary “LaWhore Vagistan is everyone's favorite South Asian drag academic auntie. She brings the nightclub to the classroom and vice-versa.”—Hyperallergic “Sassy and wicked smart, Decolonize Drag is essential reading for those seeking to understand the global and historical expanse of drag performance as well as the current anti-drag furor in the U.S. Kareem Khubchandani demonstrates how the intersections of drag and colonialism, left uninterrogated, risk resuturing rather than destabilizing gender binaries. Ultimately, though, this book is an invitation to revel in the unlimited joys of non-binary world making that drag can offer.”—Jasbir Puar, author of The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times “We've needed this book . . . Khubchandani describes legendary drag acts, interweaves personal experiences, and formulates unflinching critiques of systemic inequalities that shape how all drag is received . . . An absolute must-read for fans, practitioners, and scholars of drag alike.”—Sasha Velour, winner of Season 9 of RuPaul's Drag Race and author of The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stephen Vider’s crisply written, gorgeously illustrated book on queer domesticity traces the transformation of the private sphere over the second half of the twentieth century in the United States. Home-life for LGBTQ people, he argues, evolved from a haven from state-sanctioned homophobia, to a revolutionary alternative to the heteronormative household, before ultimately becoming a homonormative domain entitled to legal protection. Each chapter is fascinating and fresh in its own way, and add up to something more than the sum of its parts: this is an important corrective to a queer historiography that has focused almost entirely on the public sphere." * Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution *“The Queerness of Home is a consequential achievement. Like any historian worth their salt, Vider knows how to tell a tale: this book’s prose is witty and clear as a mountain stream. More than that, it makes an irrefutable case that twentieth-century domestic environments have been momentous for LGBTQ individuals in the modern United States.” * Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture *“This strikingly original book recovers the unexpected significance of queer forms of home life to LGBTQ people and politics since the mid-twentieth century. Ranging from the gay marriages and camp cookbooks of the 1950s and 1960s to the communes, queer homeless youth shelters, and lesbian feminist experiments in domestic redesign of the post-Stonewall years, Vider provides new insights into the intimate lives and broadest political claims of queer folk—and the meaning of domesticity itself. Creatively researched, beautifully written, and unfailingly smart, this is a first-rate work of revisionist history.” * George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 *“An important history of how LGBTQ peoples make and sustain the homes of their choice and fight back against norms that oppress them. Vider reveals the lives, labors, and imaginations of LGBTQ home-makers, whose experiments with queer domesticities unfurl in vivid storytelling and amazing archival photographs.” * Nayan Shah, author of Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West *"Vider’s examination of the recent history of activist domesticity in the United States draws upon an extensive breadth of personal, public, and material sources. In its decade-by-decade chronicle the book discusses efforts to fit into the conformist households of the early Cold War, and examines later struggles to build alternative forms of domesticity, through communal living and rethinking architecture. . . . As well, despite its setting in a time of repression and epidemic, this is not a dark book. LGBTQ agency is at its core, and the narrative is a chronicle of contestation, adaptation, imagination, and, above all, creating community. In the face of hegemonic exclusion and repression, the activists in Vider’s study responded with art and humor and radical caregiving." * Journal of History *"Stephen Vider’s innovative new book, The Queerness of Home, offers a sweeping account of the centrality of the home and homemaking in challenging and renegotiating concepts of gender, sexuality, belonging, citizenship, and family, among many others, in the United States since the mid-twentieth century . . . Vider’s book is a most welcome contribution to many fields." * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics and Performance of Home Part One. Integrations Chapter One. “Something of a Merit Badge”: Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment Chapter Two. “Oh Hell, May, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity Part Two. Revolutions Chapter Three. “The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community”: Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household Chapter Four. “Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation”: Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture Part Three. Reforms Chapter Five. “Some Hearts Go Hungering”: Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism Chapter Six. “Picture a Coalition”: Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisProviding advice on how professionals working with autistic trans youth and adults can tailor their practice to best serve their clients and how parents can support their trans autistic children, this book increases awareness of the large overlap between trans identities and autism.By including chapters on gender diversity basics, neuroqueer trauma and how to support neuroqueer individuals, this book sets out strategies for creating more effective support that takes into account the unique experiences of trans people on the spectrum. Written by a therapist who identifies as neuroqueer, this book is the perfect companion for professionals who want to increase their knowledge of the experiences and needs of their trans autistic clients.Trade ReviewThis concise, appropriate, necessary book offers explanations, answers and research for understanding gender differences journeyed by autistic, neurodiverse individuals. I cannot stress enough the importance of this book! -- Dr. Wenn Lawson (PhD), CPsych, BPSs, AFBPSs, MAPsFor those new to the field and those who already know so much, you will all discover so much more to learn in Finn Gratton's brilliant and comprehensive book taking us on a journey alongside trans autistic people, in their everyday lives and in the offices of the professionals there to help them. Gratton reminds us throughout Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults that as we learn, it is the trans autistic people who will be our teachers in both their neuro- and gender diversity. -- Diane Ehrensaft, Ph.D., Director of Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Gender Center, University of California San Francisco Author of The Gender Creative Child and Gender Born, Gender MadeGratton opens readers' eyes and hearts to the experiences and realities of neuroqueer individuals. Brimming with practical resources and strategies, a true gem and essential reading for families and professionals willing to take action to make the world a more welcoming place for trans autistic youth and adults. -- Katherine A. Kuvalanka, Ph.D., Department of Family Science and Social Work, Miami UniversityTable of Contents1. Autistic and Transgender. 2. Recognizing an Autistic Transgender Person. 3. The Inside Experience of Being Trans and Autistic. 4. Working with Trauma and Minority Stress. 5. Working with Connection, Attachment and Relationships. 6. Working with Families. 7. Health Care Issues. 8. Navigating the Cisgender Neurotypical World. 9. Crisis Interventions and Preparing for Crises. 10. Looking Forward.

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence.Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.A graceful and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting and healing, in Amateur we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man.Trade ReviewAmateur is a beautiful and powerful book written by the superbly talented Thomas Page McBee. This memoir is such an important piece of trans literature to support and one that spoke to me deeply * * Elliot Page * *A visceral, sparky read . . . Beautifully written [and] deep and affecting . . . Absolutely fascinating -- BBC Radio 4 A Good ReadA blazingly wise and beautiful book -- A.L. KENNEDYMcBee's writing bristles with an elegant swagger . . . Amateur is as much a reconciliation as an emancipation . . . Punchy, thought-provoking stuff * * Sunday Times * *In an age when identity feels so splintered and fractional, McBee's empathy with men feels refreshing, but it's his determination to be accountable that is radical. He resolves his own masculinity crisis by doing the things men often think they're doing, but so often are not: listening, asking questions, seeking help, being vulnerable * * Observer * *Brave, honest and touchingly human . . . This is a beautiful book that will resonate . . . with anyone anywhere in the world who is determined to become a better, kinder human being -- ELIF SHAFAK * * Guardian * *Amateur is a heck of a tale, and McBee is a gifted memoirist * * Financial Times * *Amateur provocatively describes the ways in which an increasingly fragile patriarchal culture needs to keep men in their place. A quest for self-liberation, this loving and deeply intelligent exploration of contemporary masculinities is essential reading -- DEBORAH LEVYOne of my favourite books of 2018 . . . A memoir about boxing, masculinity and transitioning. It is exceptional -- NIKESH SHUKLAAn eye-opening story about gender and courage, and confirmation that there are many different fights to being a man * * Guardian * *

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Book Synopsis'Radical, honest and timely' FOX FISHER'Fascinating' ASH PALMISCIANO'A cracking read' MEG-JOHN BARKER"This book is about my penis. This is my story of going through lower surgery, specifically phalloplasty, and the adventures I have with my changing genitals along the way. Welcome to my journey."After coming out as trans, Finlay Games was adamant lower surgery would not be a part of his transition, but as the years went by, and his gender dysphoria increased, he decided to explore surgical options. Detailing the emotional and physical journey of phalloplasty, this book takes the reader through Finlay's experiences, from the initial decision-making through each stage of the surgery to its completion, recovery and after-care. Describing how he had to relearn his body, sexuality and his relationships, Finlay shares his wealth of advice and tips on donor site options, different types of surgery, the referral process, essential items and resources, and looking after your mental health.Part memoir, part self-help guide, this insightful, witty and deeply honest book highlights the life-changing impact surgery can have for trans people and provides hope to those on a similar journey.Trade ReviewThe tongue in cheek phrase 'top to Bottom' explores openly, honestly and candidly, one individual's journey from sexual shame and gender dysphoria, to gender and sexual autonomy. This uncompromising tale inspires and challenges us. As a trans man myself, Finn has always encouraged and motivated me. For helping to dispel fear and those accompanying ghost stories, thankyou can never convey enough! A must read for anyone considering Lower Surgery and those who support us. -- Dr. Wenn B. Lawson (PhD) CPsychol AFBPsS MAPsTop to Bottom is a wonderful trans memoir and a greatly needed resource for anyone considering phalloplasty. Much more than that though, Finlay's book is a human story of the move towards authenticity and belonging. Told with great warmth, humour, and self awareness, it's a cracking read for anybody. -- Meg-John Barker, author of How To Understand Your Gender and Gender: A Graphic Guide.Top to Bottom - a story you've never heard before but a story that needs to be told. This memoir is universally written, acting as an outstanding guide to any trans man about to embark on this journey but also a fascinating insight into the complexity of being human. Finn is an extraordinary writer, his tone is warm, painfully honest, profound and humorous. I'll be highly recommending this book for years to come. -- Ash Palmisciano, TV Actor and SpeakerFinn has given us a gift. A timely companion on the journey to advocate for ones own pleasure, hone the hoop jumping skills needed to medically affirm ones gender, and to nurture the community needed to raise a penis! -- Dr. Liam “Captain” Snowdon, Genderqueerdo & Co-founder Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex EducationA grippingly in-depth and honest account of a process that's rarely been told so openly before. Radical, honest and timely. -- Fox Fisher - Artist, film maker and campaignerAn engrossing testimony to transformation and learning to love your body...told with warmth and insight. -- GsceneThe insightful, witty and deeply honest book that so many of us on a similar path have been hungry for. -- Phallo.netTable of Contents1. Awakening to the Absence of my Penis 2. Finding the Right Penis - Exploring Lower Surgery 3. Making Sacrifices for a Penis - Weighing Up Losses and Gains in Phalloplasty 4. Preparing for a Penis - The Official Referral and A Long Wait5. The Arrival of my Penis - Stage One Phalloplasty 6. Adjusting at Home and Early Recovery 7. The Long Recovery - Two to Six Months Post-op8. The Freedom of Standing Up to Pee - Stage Two Phalloplasty 9. A failed attempt at Stage Three and A Giant Step Backwards 10. An Unexpected Sexual Awakening 11. Peeing Freely Again - Re-hook-up Success12. The Gay Experiment 13. We Have Lift Off - Stage Three Success 14. Final Health and Reflections on My Journey

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditors' Introduction Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings - Daniel Marshall, Kevin P. Murphy, and Zeb TortoriciOn Being in the Archive Minor Threats - Mimi Thi Nguyen Useful In/stability: The Dialectical Production of the Social and Spatial Lesbian Herstory Archives - Jen Jack Gieseking “Look More at the Camera than at Me”: Susan and the Transgender Archive - Jeanne Vaccaro Queer Archives, Queer Movements: The Visual and Bodily Archives of Vaginal Davis - Robert SummersPiecing Together Historical Traces What's the Tea: Gossip and the Production of Black Gay Social History - Kwame Holmes Drawn from the Scraps: The Finding AIDS of Mundo Meza - Robb Hernández The Queer Archivist as Political Dissident: Rereading the Ottoman Empire in the Works of Resad Ekrem Koçu - Rüstem Ertug Altιnay Sex in the Archives: David Louis Bowie's New York Diaries, 1978–1993 - Barry ReayDoing Archives Body, Sex, Interface: Reckoning with Images at the Lesbian Herstory Archives - Cait McKinney Privacy Anxieties: Ethics versus Activism in Archiving Lesbian Oral History Online - Elise ChenierFaithful Histories Queering the LDS Archive - K. Mohrman Beyond Accountability: The Queer Archive of Catholic Sexual Abuse - Anthony M. PetroQueer Archival Generations Archival Justice: An Interview with Ben Power Alwin - K. J. Rawson “Queering the Trans? Family Album”: Elspeth H. Brown and Sara Davidmann, in Conversation - Elspeth H. Brown and Sara Davidmann Archive Discipline: An Interview on the Danish Gay and Lesbian Archive with Karl Peder Pedersen - Peter EdelbergQueering Archives Queering Archives: A Roundtable Discussion - Anjali Arondekar, Ann Cvetkovich, Christina B. Hanhardt, Regina Kunzel, Tavia Nyong'o, Juana María Rodríguez, Susan Stryker, Daniel Marshall, Kevin P. Murphy, and Zeb TortoriciReflection Who Were We to Do Such a Thing? Grassroots Necessities, Grassroots Dreaming: The LHA in Its Early Years - Joan Nestle

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Book SynopsisSafe Is Not Enough illustrates how educators can support the positive development of LGBTQ students in a comprehensive way so as to create truly inclusive school communities. Using examples from classrooms, schools, and districts across the country, Michael Sadowski identifies emerging practices such as creating an LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum; fostering a whole-school climate that is supportive of LGBTQ students; providing adults who can act as mentors and role models; and initiating effective family and community outreach programs.While progress on LGBTQ issues in schools remains slow, in many parts of the country schools have begun making strides toward becoming safer, more welcoming places for LGBTQ students. Schools typically achieve this by revising antibullying policies and establishing GSAs (gay-straight student alliances). But it takes more than a deficit-based approach for schools to become places where LGBTQ students can fulfill their potential. In Safe Is Not Enough, Michael Sadowski highlights how educators can make their schools more supportive of LGBTQ students’ positive development and academic success.

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Book SynopsisAll the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients.

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Book SynopsisGoing through puberty and adolescence presents unwelcome changes for many transgender youth, and this book provides advice to parents of transgender teens to help them understand what their child is experiencing and feeling during this challenging time.Addressing common fears and concerns that parents of transgender teens share, the book guides them through steps they can take with their child, including advice on hormones and surgery and how to transition socially. It addresses the recent increase in teens presenting with non-binary identities, and reflects major legal, social and medical developments regarding transgender issues. The author's insights are gained from his professional experience of providing psychotherapy regarding gender identity. He provides resources and further reading to help parents expand their knowledge. Although aimed predominantly at parents, this book is useful for anyone working with teenagers and young adults as it provides many answers to common questions about adolescent gender identity.Trade ReviewIrwin Krieger has given parents the gift of a brilliant, empathic roadmap in their journey with their transgender teen. He stretches our horizons to bring into focus not just youth who tell us "I'm the opposite gender" but non-binary youth who identify as neither male nor female, but both or all. Elegant, streamlined and robust, a must read for anyone raising or promoting the gender health of a transgender teen. -- Diane Ehrensaft, PH.D., Author of The Gender Creative Child and Director of Child and Adolescent Gender Center, University of California San FranciscoAn excellent and much needed resource for parents of transgender, non-binary, or gender questioning teens. With compassion and encouragement, Krieger provides a pathway for parents who are navigating this journey. -- Janna Barkin, Author of He’s Always Been My SonSensible and straight forward, yet also sensitive to parents' own potential struggles adjusting to their new understanding of their child. It's an excellent resource at a time when such clear and comprehensive materials are desperately needed. -- Kelly Huegel Madrone, Author of GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning TeensTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The Language of Gender Identity; 3. Gender Nonconforming Kids; 4. Sexuality and Gender; 5. Puberty and Adolescence; 6. Balancing Authenticity and Safety; 7. Nurturing Your Transgender Teen; 8. Taking Steps; 9. Medical Transition; 10. Conclusion; 11. Resources for Parents of Transgender Teens; Glossary; References

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Book SynopsisGender identity and expression in ancient cultures are questioned in these 15 essays in light of our new understandings of sex and gender.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first introductory textbook intended for transgender/trans studies at the undergraduate level. The book can also be used for related courses in LGBTQ, queer, and gender/feminist studies.It encompasses and connects global contexts, intersecting identities, historic and contemporary issues, literature, history, politics, art, and culture. Ardel Haefele-Thomas embraces the richness of intersecting identities—how race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, class, nation, religion, and ability have cross-influenced to shape the transgender experience and trans culture across and beyond the binary. Written by an accomplished teacher with experience in a wide variety of higher learning institutions, this new text inspires readers to explore not only contemporary transgender issues and experiences but also the global history of gender diversity through the ages.Introduction to Transgender Studies features:-A welcoming approach that creates a safe space for a wide range of students, from those who have never thought about gender issues to those who identify as transgender, trans, nonbinary, agender, and/or gender expansive.-Writings from the Community essays that relate the chapter theme to the lived experiences of trans and LGB people and allies from different parts of the world.-Key concepts, film and media suggestions, topics for discussion, activities, and ideas for writing and research to engage students and serve as a review at exam time.-Instructors’ resources that will be available that include key teaching points with discussion questions, activities, research projects, tips for using the media suggestions, PowerPoint presentations, and sample syllabi for various course configurations.Intended for introductory transgender, LGBTQ+, or gender studies courses through upper-level electives related to the expanding field of transgender studies, this text has been successfully class-tested in community colleges and public and private colleges and universities.Trade ReviewNamed a top ten book of 2020 by the Over the Rainbow committee of the American Library Association * Over the Rainbow committee of the American Library Association *I can’t imagine a better textbook introducing students to transgender studies. Ardel Haefele-Thomas lucidly explains the complexities of gender nonconformity using clear analysis, together with rich and nuanced historical examples. These are elucidated further with the delightful details they deserve. -- Paisley Currah, coeditor of Transgender Studies QuarterlyThis is a groundbreaking textbook and significant development in transgender studies. Students will relate to all aspects of each chapter, including the personal stories, rich histories, interactive questions, inspiring trans figures, and much more. This is a must read and a truly intersectional accomplishment. -- Breana Bahar Hansen, City College of San Francisco and University of San FranciscoThe cultural historian, queer theorist, and trans activist Ardel Haefele-Thomas has written an indispensable textbook on gender and sexuality for schools and universities. I have field-tested it with students across ethnicities and nationalities. They are invariably drawn to the well-researched multicultural histories, precise definitions of LGBTQ+, and the very personal stories of members of the community that the author has assembled. This volume will further transgender tolerance and challenge the binary as much as any single work can do. -- Regenia Gagnier, University of ExeterArdel Haefele-Thomas has done a commendable job presenting what transgender has meant up to our present moment, thereby giving the rising generation a generous gift to use as they see fit for the ongoing project of creating a less straitjacketed, more expansive sense of what a human life can be. It offers a useful place to start thinking about basic concepts like sex and gender, sexual orientation, and identity. -- Susan Stryker, University of Arizona, from the forewordIt makes me so honored and happy to write the introduction to Ardel Haefele-Thomas’s groundbreaking and profoundly important Introduction to Transgender Studies. A book like this matters to everybody. -- Jo Clifford, independent playwright, poet, and performer and former professor of theater at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, ScotlandPragmatic, philosophical, urgent, and inclusive, Introduction to Transgender Studies is a crucial introduction to an important area of study. . . . With high-level theories that often tie into current-day examples—like bathroom discrimination and the concerning rate of violence against trans people––Introduction to Transgender Studies is a powerful work and a constant reminder that what we learn is significant to real lives, every day. * Foreword Reviews *A must-read for anyone needing an education on transgender history. * Advocate *Table of ContentsPrefaceForeword, by Susan StrykerIntroduction, by Jo CliffordA Note on Language1. Sex and Gender: Stories and Definitions2. Sexual Orientation: Stories and Definitions3. Modern Sexology: The Science of Objectification, or the Science of Empowerment?4. Direct Action, Collective Histories, and Collective Activism: What a Riot!5. Navigating Binary Spaces: Bathrooms, Schools, Sports6. Navigating Government Documents, Work, and Healthcare: I'll Need to See Some I.D. with That7. Global Gender Diversity throughout the Ages: We Have Always Been with You8. Four Historical Figures Who Cross-Dressed: The Adventurer, the Ambassador, the Surgeon, and the Seamstress9. Cross-Dressing and Political Protest: Parasols and Pitchforks10. Gender Diversity in Artifacts, Art, Icons, and Legends from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Classically Trans11. Trans Literature, Performing Arts, Music, and Visual Art: The Art of Resistance/The Art of Empowerment12. The Importance of Archives: Hearing Our Own VoicesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this twentieth anniversary edition of Female Masculinitywhich features a new preface by the authorJack Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities, cataloging the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.Trade Review“[Halberstam] steers herself admirably between the subtle and not so subtle interactions between the personal and theoretical.” -- Millissa Deitz * Screening the Past *“[R]efreshing . . . . Halberstam forces us to look at familiar texts and problems in fresh ways and leaves room for future scholarship to expand her critical insights. . . . [S]he has taken on a vast project and is clearly committed to sketching the contours of many possible approaches to female masculinity rather than dwelling on one or two . . . .[A]ccessible and enlightening . . . .” -- Rachel Adams * GLQ *“A significant contribution to a growing genre of feminist analyses of masculinity. . . . Female Masculinity's greatest strength lies in its scope. . . . [It] should rank among our most important, sophisticated feminist analyses of the way maleness is constructed in Western culture. Because of its focus on specifically lesbian contributions to masculinity, Halberstam's book surpasses its predecessors in its special relevance to lesbian readers. Finally (and perhaps most importantly for Halberstam's peers), because of her book's attention to both popular and high art subjects, Female Masculinity is an important contribution to the growing field of Cultural Studies.” -- Heather Findlay * Lesbian Review of Books *“Halberstam’s refusal to work within the ‘difference’ paradigm raises a series of exciting questions . . . . Female Masculinity takes on everything from eighteenth-century frictioners (tribades) to mustachioed drag kings like Mo B. Dick and Buster Hymen to transgender dykes. Halberstam argues convincingly that there has been persistent bias against masculine women in the lesbian community and in lesbian criticism. Moreover, she uses the example of the masculine woman to suggest that lesbians need a subtler vocabulary for sexuality and gender. . . .” -- Heather Love * Transition *“In this landmark study, Halberstam consolidates her position as a key theorist within Queer scholarship. Female Masculinity is an immensely persuasive, powerfully-written text that imparts exciting and important theoretical ideas. It constitutes a valuable initial challenge to those in feminism and cultural studies who conflate masculinity with maleness, and offers an inspiring start for ongoing study.” -- Maria Antoniou * Feminist Theory *"[A] unique offering in queer studies: a study of the masculine lesbian woman. Halberstam makes a compelling argument for a more flexible taxonomy of masculinity, including not only men, who have historically held the power in society, but also women who embody qualities that are usually associated with maleness, such as strength, authority, and independence." * Library Journal *"Halberstam’s book can be added to the list of important studies of masculinity and femininity. . . . Along with Judith Butler, Terry Castle, Sue-Ellen Case, and Eve K. Sedgwick, Halberstam—especially in her previous work on masculinity and lesbianism—is already established as one of the most thought-provoking voices in queer studies. This book will only enhance that reputation. Female Masculinity should find a wide readership. . . ." * Choice *"Judith Halberstam’s Female Masculinity is truly a pioneering document which disrupts eras of silence surrounding this topic. . . . [S]he crafts her language in a very inviting and accessible manner. She is clearly trying to be understood, which is a refreshing change from too many academic works. In addition, she infuses humor and little personal preferences or irritations (mostly through colorful adjective choices) into the middle of serious analysis, which makes the whole academic process more interesting and less elusive. . . . Whether you agree or disagree with her choices, the ideas are definitely stimulating. It is a book you’ll want to sit down with your friends and talk about. You find yourself overjoyed at one moment that someone has finally written down exactly what you’ve felt but haven’t been able to articulate, and in the next moment irritated because you think she’s mistaken. It is essentially an opening to the major taboo of masculinity in women . . . . [T]he genuine enthusiasm she brings to her research is catchy and this book could very well be the catalyst for expanding a whole field of thought. And, on a personal level, it simply affirms our lives and ideas." * Gay and Lesbian Times (San Diego) *"Judith Halberstam’s new book, Female Masculinity, is an extraordinary and studied work that carefully presents an analysis of gender, and more specifically, masculinity, without over-simplification or narrow definition. . . . This is the most thorough and broad-visioned work on female masculinity that I have yet seen. Halberstam’s work is an essential contribution to our increasing understanding of gender expression and its relationship to biology and sexual orientation, as well as to everything else." * Lambda Book Report *"There is a need for this book; Halberstam’s analysis offers the reader a fresh and positive spin on the much maligned stone butch figure, for example, and the book contains an interesting selection of photos of drag kings, transgender, and butch women. There are long sections detailing butch characters in film and modern drag performers, an area on which little has been written." * Siren *"Female Masculinity is a full-on attack on the idea that masculinity is exclusively—or even primarily—the property of men. . . . [It] aims to help restore a sense of butch pride, and to validate the entitlement of women to their own masculinity. . . . There’s an interesting defense of the stone butch, more often cast as a damaged and dysfunctional figure, and a walk along the debated borders between butch lesbians and female to male transsexuals. An accessible chapter on butch representation in film observes the emasculation of butches in mainstream productions—Fried Green Tomatoes, Desert Hearts—and there’s a useful analysis of what’s at stake in the drag king club acts in America and the UK. . . . [This is] the first full-length study in a crucial area and it’s a great starting point." * Diva *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition xi Preface xxiii 1. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Masculinity without Men 1 2. Perverse Presentation: The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders 45 3. "A Writer of Misfits": John Radclyffe Hall and the Discourse of Inversion 75 4. Lesbian Masculinity: Even Stone Butches Get the Blues 111 5. Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuum 141 6. Looking Butch: A Rough Guide to Butches on Film 175 7. Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance 231 8. Raging Bull (Dyke): New Masculinities 267 Notes 279 Bibliography 307 Filmography 319 Index 323

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Book SynopsisFinalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction FoundationTraverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions of gender, race, and sexuality from literature, film, and digital mediaOld Futures explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse. Queer theory offers creative ways to think about time, breaking with straight and narrow paths toward the future laid out for the reproductive family, the law-abiding citizen, and the believer in markets. Yet so far it has rarely considered the possibility that, instead of a queer present reshaping the ways we rTrade ReviewAmassing an impressive and eclectic archive of utopian and dystopian writings under the fantastic heading of Old Futures, Alexis Lothian offers the most detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of Queer, Black, and feminist speculative fictions to date. Offering an array of futures, non-futures, un-futures, and no futures, this book shows us the precarious foundations upon which our own sense of the present sits. Lothians book is a marvel and will, I promise, never get old. -- Jack Halberstam,author of In A Queer Time and PlaceLothian's central concept of old futuresthe cast-off remains of speculations pastis both entertaining fodder and theoretically rich terrain for making queer theory new again. Theres something wonderfully bold about the books willingness to let & the future become concrete by turning to its many past versions, bringing them to light as commentary on where we are, and are not, now. -- Elizabeth Freeman,author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer HistoriesLothian does something else entirely and opens up a new vantage point on the future by looking at it sideways, from outside its own timeline. That vantage point allows her (and us) to see the continuities, to see the way the leftover stuff of the past’s futures persists in and enlivens our present. * Science Fiction Studies *Lothian's insistence that many speculative texts contain both liberating queer images and unsettling normative messages is one of the strongest aspects of Old Futures . . .a book that is filled with unexpected yet crucial connections. -- Melanie E.S. Kohnen, * Transformative Works and Cultures *Through thoughtful analysis of a number of speculative stories from the last hundred years or so, Old Futures offers a solid contribution to both geek and queer studies. Lothian asks what we can learn from women, people of color, and queer-identifying people when they imagine futures for themselves free of oppression. * The Geek Anthropologist *It would be easy for Old Futures to feel scattered, covering as it does a century’s worth of source material, three different forms of media, and theory ranging from traditional SF criticism to fan studies. Yet somehow Lothian not only pulls it off, but makes it seem effortless. * SFRA Review *Overall, Lothian has constructed an admirable volume that I have already begun recommending to colleagues. This is her first book, and it bodes well; I look forward to seeing what Lothian does next. * SFRA Review *

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Book Synopsis"These sentences—they—will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut." So begins Renee Gladman's latest interdisciplinary project, Plans for Sentences. A tour de force of dizzying brilliance, Gladman's book blurs the distinctions between text and image, recognizing that drawing can be a form of writing, and vice versa: a generative act in which the two practices not only inform each other but propel each other into futures. In this radical way, drawing and writing become part of a limitless loop of energy, unearthing fertile possibilities for the ways we think about poetry. If Gladman ascribes to any particular type of poetics, here in Plans for Sentences, we are sure to find that it is robustly grounded in a poetics of infinite language.

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Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2019'Strong, powerful and a valuable resource' - Fox FisherThis is the story of one trans man's exploration of gender identity, set against changing cultural attitudes from the 90s to the present day. Caspar Baldwin grew up in a time when being trans was not widely accepted by society, and though progress has been made since then, trans men are still underrepresented and misunderstood. Grappling with the messy realities of gender expectations while giving a stark and moving account of his own experiences, Baldwin grants a nuanced understanding of what it's like to be a trans boy or man. With its unflinching portrayal of the vulnerability, confusion, dysphoria, empowerment, peace and joy that are all part of the transition process, this book provides an invaluable support for trans men and is a memoir that breaks the mould.Trade ReviewAs someone who was called a tomboy growing up as well, it gives invaluable and often ignored insight into the life of a trans masculine person. Strong, powerful and a valuable resource about the importance of supporting trans youth, regardless of their gender expression. -- Fox Fisher, film maker, artist and campaignerExcellent expression of self-discovery! Casper describes the psychological torture of being a young trans man in a developing woman's body. A very powerful demonstration on the need and validity of puberty blockers for trans youth. -- Charlie Kiss, author of 'A New Man'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Preface. Part 1: Too Young to Understand? 1. Little Sister. 2. The Twelve Dolls of Christmas. Part 2: When I Was a Boy. 3. Wedding Day Blues. 4. Summer Secrets. 5. Girls' Trousers Tomorrow Please. 6. Toilets of Terror. Part 3: Isn't It Time You Grew Up? 7. Breast Is Best. 8. Nobody Must Know. Part 4: Becoming My Own Man. 9. This Is Not a Drill. 10. Trust and Transition. 11. Walking the Right Path. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisExploring clinical examples of the lived experiences of trans people across the lifespan, this unique and authoritative book addresses topics such as attending school, puberty, employment issues, suicide, bullying, autism and intersecting identities. Divided into three sections, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, the book brings the case studies to life and dispels common myths by including short responses from leading professional experts.By enabling a greater knowledge of work with trans people and therefore filling an important gap in available literature, Case Studies in Clinical Practice with Trans and Gender Non-Binary Clients allows mental health providers to understand the nuanced differences of handling clinical concerns for their trans clients.Trade ReviewThis is a great book to help mental health professionals improve their work with transgender and non-binary people. It is written succinctly and without jargon, making it an impactful and accessible read. * Mel Kinross, Therapy Today *lore m. dickey, Ph.D., has completed an amazing feat with this volume. First, he brings to bear his own extensive experience, expertise, and personal reflections on the variety of cases and clinical concerns that may appear over the lifespan for trans individuals. Secondly, Dr. dickey's own observations are commented on, enhanced, and explored by a variety of expert clinicians offering their own unique contexts and observations. This type of person-centered, case-oriented approach to gender affirming care is the book that I wish I had access to as a beginning clinician, and has immediately become the first book I will recommend to colleagues seeking an orientation to what they should know and ideas they must explore to gain competence in this area. Dr. dickey's book is required reading for anyone aspiring to culturally competence care. -- Matthew D. Skinta, Ph.D., ABPP, Assistant Professor, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL., Author of Contextual Behavior Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority ClientsAmong the many writers of psychotherapy literature, it is unusual to find an author that is able to achieve a blend of science with an empathic window into the experience of the people with whom we are likely to work. Dr. Lore Dickey has achieved this very thing. This book fills a huge gap in the field, providing comprehensive perspective on the experience of transgender individuals across the lifespan. It belongs on a reachable bookshelf so that it can be accessed easily and often! -- Christopher R. Martell, Ph.D., ABPP, Author of Cognitive and behavioral therapies with lesbian, gay and bisexual clients, Editor of the Clinician’s Digest in the journal Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identitylore's book reads like a novel while teaching essential lessons to professionals, administrators, and others encountering trans/nonbinary individuals. lore portrays realistic and complex life situations masterfully interwoven with applied research, principles of care, and insightful pragmatism in supporting and affirming trans/gender diverse people and their loved ones. (As a transman, practicing psychologist, and educator, I) Thank you, lore, for addressing a wide scope of issues plus varied roles and demands for professionals while illuminating many experiences of intersectionality. -- Ren Massey, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist, Past President, Georgia Psychological Association, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Faculty, WPATH Global Education Initiativelore dickey brings a multitude of therapy spaces, unique intersectional identities and diverse concerns of transgender and non-binary people to the hands of any provider from the chair of the private practitioner to the community healthcare center. In an unprecedented format, these case studies give a provider access to novel and meaningful clinical experiences when we do not have the luxury of being a proverbial fly on the wall in someone else's therapy room! This book is a direct yet nuanced and honest call to competent clinical care. Truly a desktop resource for years to come! -- Sarah Burgany, PsyD, PhoenixRISE, Denver, COWhat does affirmative counseling really look like? Case Studies in Clinical Practice with Trans and Gender Nonbinary Clients shows us by integrating the most advanced knowledge of our fields with the personal experiences of gender diversity using a brilliant range of clients, mental health professionals, and social locations. Affirmative counseling is rooted in common principles but in practice, it is as varied as our clients-in-context are. dickey and his team of experts are the guides so many mental health professionals and students have been hoping to find to support their work with transgender, nonbinary, and gender diverse clients and their families. By applying core affirmative counseling tenets through a fantastic variety of clinical encounters, dickey's evidence-based and warm approach with the reader makes affirmative therapy feel as possible and practical as it really is. -- Melissa J. Grey, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Monroe County Community College, Staff Psychologist, Integrative Empowerment Group, Saniyah Center, Ypsilanti, MITable of ContentsIntroduction. Part One - Childhood. 1. Early Childhood. 2. Time to go to School. 3. Co-Occurring Concerns in Childhood: Understanding Autism. 4. Mixed Parental Support. Part Two: Adolescence. 5. Puberty, or "Why Is My Body". 6. Co-Occurring Concerns in Adolescence: Cutting and Suicidality. 7. Nonbinary Identities. 8. Bullying. 9. Youth and Social Media. 10. Sexuality Exploration. Part Three - Adulthood. 11. Workplace Issues. 12. Becoming a Trans Parent. 13. Intersecting Identities. 14. Military Members and Veterans. 15. Coming Out to Your Children. 16. Religious Values and Trans Identities. 17. Working with Transgender Partners. 18. Institutions. 19. Advocating for Medical Needs. Summary and Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisLAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST - Transgender Non-FictionProviding new approaches for exploring gender identity and expression, this book is ideal for clinical practice with transgender and gender nonconforming/diverse clients. Importantly, it moves beyond the medical model to advance an understanding of transgender subjectivity as a natural variation of gender in humans.The book deepens understanding of the developmental trajectory of trans and gender non-conforming individuals over their lifespan, before and beyond transition, by offering new theories on gender. Drawing on theories from a range of different fields including psychoanalysis, philosophy, neuroscience, consciousness studies, trauma therapy, sex therapy, gender theory, disability studies and trans studies, it illustrates how informed clinical practice can recognise the complexity of gender identity and expression. With chapters on the understanding of core gender through the Free Energy Principle, the foundations of gender in consciousness, a gender algorithm, trauma, mirroring, and sexual functioning, this book works to provide a superior method of clinical practice that can better serve trans communities and our understanding of gender across the population.Trade ReviewMost literature for therapists about transgender mental health focuses on cultural competency. This book goes beyond "Trans 101," exploring in much more depth the development of the gendered self and the role of gender in consciousness. With roots in both psychoanalytic and academic worlds, Langer provides clinicians with new ways of theorizing gender that both benefit from these traditions and push them forward. -- Laura Erickson-Schroth, MD, MA, LGBTQ psychiatrist and writer (Trans Bodies Trans Selves / "You're in the Wrong Bathroom!" and 20 Other Myths and MisconceptionsThis book will be essential to both new and seasoned clinicians working with transgender communities. Langer expands our understanding of transgender experience from an interdisciplinary approach. The in-depth chapters of trauma, sex and development are a unique examinations of these clinical issues and their relation to trans experience. The theory and practice in this book contributes to clinical psychology, trans studies, consciousness studies, sex therapy and trans health. -- Dr. Lin Fraser, EdD WPATH Past President Co-Chair- Global Education InitiativeS.J. Langer has generated intriguing ideas that will be of immediate interest to the interdisciplinary field of trans* studies. Beyond essentialist trapping and visual policing of identities, he theorizes transgender experience as a synesthetic "surprise" that involves a complex interaction between one's perceptions of internal biophysiology and their responses to social mirroring. -- Chris Straayer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, New York University, author of Deviant Eyes, Deviant BodiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Preface; 1. Being and knowing; 2. Foundations of Consciousness and Gender; 3. Mirroring Recognition; 4. Gender, Terminable and Interminable; 5. Accommodating for Bodies; 6. Trauma, Trans and Temporality; Epilogue; References; Images

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Book SynopsisThe US military has done an about-face on gender and sexuality policy over the last decade, ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell, restrictions on women in combat, and transgender exclusion. Contrary to expectations, servicemembers have largely welcomed cisgender LGB individualsyet they continue to vociferously resist trans inclusion and the presence of women on the front lines. In the minds of many, the embodied deficiencies of cisgender women and trans people of all genders puts othersand indeed, the nationat risk. In this book, Cati Connell identifies the homonormative bargain that underwrites these uneven patterns of receptiona bargain that comes with significant concessions, upholding and even exacerbating race, class, and gender inequality in the pursuit of sexual equality. In this handshake deal, even the widespread support for open LGB service is highly conditional, revocable upon violation of the bargain. Despite the promise of inclusivity, in practice, the military has made room only Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Dawning of a Kinder, Gentler US Military Part 1 Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 1. “The Hard Work to Get Me in the Door”: A History of the Gay Ban 2. “What They Do in Their Private Life, I Couldn’t Care Less”: Striking the Homonormative Bargain 3. “He Acts Straight but He Has This One Thing . . .”: Open LGB Service and Queer Social Control Part 2 Ending Combat Exclusion 4. “When You Want to Create a Group of Male Killers, You Kill the Woman in Them”: Feminine Abjection and the Impossibility of Women Warriors 5. “My Problem’s Not That I’m Gay; My Problem Is That I’m a Woman”: The Patriotic Paternalism of Combat Exclusion Part 3 Removing Medical Restrictions on Transgender Service 6. “Once He Saw Them as Soldiers, I Knew We Had It”: The Trans Ban Tug of War 7. “You Can’t Have Three Bathrooms at a Forward Operating Position”: Gender Panic in the Transgendering Organization Part 4 Conclusion 8 . We Will Be Greeted as Gay Liberators? Methodological Appendix A Methodological Appendix B Methodological Appendix C Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDoes a post-vaginoplasty vagina have a G-spot? Why do some trans people find they enjoy anal sex more after testosterone? And can people with post-surgical vaginas experience vaginismus?Written by renowned sex blogger and educator Kelvin Sparks, Trans Sex is the essential guide to sex and bodies for all trans, non-binary and intersex people. Covering everything from post-surgical anatomy and hormone replacement therapy to sex toys, kink and safe sex, this empowering and practical guide also explores desire, pleasure and arousal (and why these aren't the same thing), how to navigate sex and consent with other people, as well as the difficulties many trans people experience in relation to sex, such as dysphoria and violence.Raw, honest and nothing like the sex education you received at school, this guide is here to help you on your journey to sexual discovery and fulfilment.Trade ReviewA long-awaited, in-depth, myth-busting book about trans sex written by an actual expert sex eduator. -- Jake Hall, queer sex journalist and author of 'The Art of Drag'Table of Contents1. Desire, Pleasure and Communication 2. Anatomy and Bodies 3. Sex and Safety 4. Toys and Gear 5. Manual Sex and Grinding 6. Oral Sex 7. Vaginal Sex8. Anal Sex9. Kink

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Book Synopsis'My child just came out to me as trans: What should I do?'If you are a parent looking for an answer to this question, you have come to the right place. Gathering together practical advice and personal experiences from a range of parents, activists and experts, this FAQ book provides answers to the most common questions you will have as a parent of a transgender child.What if they change their minds?How do I make sure my child is safe at school?How do we tell our other children?Sharing their experiences of how they navigated their child's transition to raise a happy and healthy child, the parents in this book will give you the tools you need to support your trans child to thrive, while the experts provide a research-based perspective on supporting trans youth. With answers to everything you need to know - from social transition, mental health and medical care, through to schools, faith and your personal feelings as a parent - this is the ultimate resource for any family with a trans child.Trade ReviewMy dad asked me for help answering a few of his questions in this book. He and the other parents had few resources to guide them as they tried to help us grow and be safe. Now parents, teachers, doctors, friends, family and beyond have access to their lessons learned and more! Thank you all! -- Nicole Maines, actress starring as Dreamer in Supergirl & transgender rights activistPriceless advice from multiple sources, reflecting an open and heartfelt community of trans allies. Touching, honest and all-encompassing. -- Fox Fisher, Artist, Film-Maker and author of Trans Teen Survival GuideA personal, practical, and powerful book that gives parents the tools to support their transgender child. -- John Sovec, LMFT, author of Out: A Parent’s Guide to Supporting Your LGBTQIA+ Kids Through Coming Out and BeyondThis book is a honest, heartfelt recollection of the triumphs, realities, and realizations of parents with gender-diverse children. It's required reading for any parent who wants their child to blossom into their fullest self. -- Jeffrey Marsh, author of the international bestseller How To Be YouA compassionate, compelling resource that provides space for many voices and perspectives - though with a common theme running through - listen to your child and love them for who they are. -- Michelle Forcier MD MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Rhode Island USAThis book asks direct and practical questions, and provides diverse and helpful answers, because every parent has a unique experience and a unique child. -- Alex Stitt, LMHC and author of Accepting GenderMy Child Told Me They're Trans... What Do I Do? provides what every parent or caregiver of a trans/gender-expansive child dreams of-your very own trustworthy support team of parents and experienced professionals to answer every question you have had, have been too shy or afraid to ask, as well as those you didn't know you need to be asking. Social and medical transition, navigating tricky family dynamics, clearing up misunderstandings of what it means for your child to be trans-it's all here. Organized in Q&A interview fashion, you'll hear a variety of perspectives from parents who share with down-to-earth, heartfelt vulnerability, as well as gaining critical research-backed advice, evidence, and resources from subject matter experts. As this guide shines a much-needed light on how parents of trans children can be as supportive, loving, and informed as possible along what can be an incredibly overwhelming journey, the resounding message from those gathered together for this compilation is abundantly clear: "You are not alone. We've been through this. We are here to help." -- Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC, Author of You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to DiscoveryThis book answers every single question a new parent has ever asked me - and it doesn't just give one answer, it gives many. In asking these questions not just of parents but of subject matter experts, and in presenting all their answers, any new parent picking up this book will be informed, will be reassured, and will have a wealth of experience and perspectives at their fingertips. 'My Child Told Me They're Trans' showcases that there's no one right way to be the parent of a trans or gender diverse child - it provides new parents with compassion, guidance, and love. -- Jennifer Shields, Healthcare Lead at Qtopia and Rainbow People Health & Wellbeing Advisor at Pegasus Health

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Book SynopsisA history of Argentina that examines how trans bodies were understood, policed, and shaped in a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives. As a trans history of Argentina, a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives, A Body of One’s Own places the histories of trans bodies at the core of modern Argentinian history. Patricio Simonetto documents the lives of people who crossed the boundaries of gender from the early twentieth century to the present. Based on extensive archival research in public and community-based archives, this book explores the mainstream medical and media portrayals of trans or travesti people, the state policing of gender embodiment, the experiences of those transgressing the boundaries of gender, and the development of homemade technologies from prosthetics to the self-injection of silicone. A Body of One''s Own explores hoTable of Contents A Note to the Reader Introduction. In the Flesh of (National) History Chapter 1. Cut from a Different Cloth: Gender Transgressions in the Early Twentieth Century Chapter 2. The Body I Was Born In: Governing Sex and Embodiment Repertoires during the Era of the Biomedical Transition Chapter 3. Queens in the Theaters and the Streets: The Global Making of Travestis’ Popular Culture and Everyday Technologies Chapter 4. Living Laboratories: Travesti/Trans Knowledge and Homemade Technologies Chapter 5. The Carnal Revolution: Trans Citizenship and the Limits of Democratic Transition Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSometimes it is difficult to identify and express our genuine gender identity. When we don't fit the ideal, the gender role, or the social script, we can feel trapped in ourselves. This "stuck" feeling is often reinforced by intrusive thoughts, mental rigidity, and self-judgement. Where do you even begin?Non-binary counselor, Alex Stitt, lays the foundations for addressing these feelings with reflective exercises and activities rooted in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) that help you understand what gender is, the spectrum of different gender identities, how to identify and accept your gender, coming out, self-actualization and much more.This interactive and humanizing workbook will help you identify your values so you can accept and embody what's most important to you in your gender exploration.Trade ReviewAccepting Gender is an amazing follow-up to ACT for Gender Identity, providing clear, grounded, and practical exercises for anyone exploring their gender identity, expression, or embodiment in the world. -- Matthew D. Skinta, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Roosevelt University, author of Contextual Behavior Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minority ClientsLife is a journey that asks you "Will I take me as I am?" This kind and gentle volume explores your ideas about gender while cultivating a posture of openness and curiosity about what it's like to be you. Well-written, sure-footed, and knowledgeable, it never encourages easy or quick answers at the expense of deeper questions. Instead, it validates and affirms the experiences of gender-explorative and gender-diverse people in a self-reflective and naturally nuanced and layered way. Based on the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy skills of psychological flexibility, it walks beside you as a kind of skilled and trusted mental tour guide, suggesting one creative exercise in self-exploration after another. And if you choose to disclose and act on what you learn, this book will keep walking with you through that part of the journey as well. I love this book. This is the place to start. -- Steven C. Hayes, PhD, Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno Originator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and author of A Liberated Mind

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Book SynopsisCelebrate your resilience and bravery in the face of discrimination and empower yourself and your community with these 100+ affirmations for queer people that celebrate being LGBTQIA+.Queer people are essential members of society—trailblazing for positive change and building up a stronger and more vibrant community every day. It’s time to affirm these truths and so many more with Affirmations for Queer People. In this book, discover more than 100 affirmations to empower yourself, emphasize your self-worth, care for your mental health and emotional well-being, and so much more. You can use these affirmations and the accompanying texts to reflect on your own life and your future. You’ll find amazing, inclusive artwork throughout that speaks to the beauty, bravery, and diversity of this incredible community. With Affirmations for Queer People, celebrate being a queer person, affirm your talent and worth, and bring your dreams

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Book SynopsisAda Nicolle created a crossword blog several years ago called Luckystreak Xwords, as well as a Patreon, both of which feature themeless puzzles focusing primarily on modern trends and Gen Z culture. She writes, I like to represent people that don't often get the spotlight in mainstream crossword puzzles, and I figure crosswords are more fun when they feel like they were written by a person living in the present moment. This collection will consist of 72 crosswords imbued with Ada's singular personality and humor, compiled from the best of her blog, plus 30 brand-new puzzles written especially for this book.

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Book SynopsisThis powerful book documents the unspoken stories of a diversity of gender embodiments across the post-Yugoslav states, uncovering how they have navigated the murky waters of war, racism, capitalism and transphobia.Table of ContentsForeword: The Yellow Brick Road of trans queer survival in Yugoslavia and after - Agatha Milan Đurić Introduction: In post-Yugoslav trans worlds - Bojan Bilić, Iwo Nord, and Aleksa Milanović Part 1: Lives 1. Transgender lives in North Macedonia: citizenship, violence, and networks of support - Slavcho Dimitrov 2. The resilience of trans existence through solidarity in Montenegro: (non)pathologising narratives of transgender lives - Jovan Ulićević and Čarna Brković 3. Transgender and non-binary persons, mental health, and gender binarism in Serbia - Jelena Vidić and Bojan Bilić Part 2: Activisms 4. From survival to activism: tracing trans history in Kosovo from the 1970s onwards - Lura Limani 5. Tortuous paths towards trans futures: the trans movement in Slovenia - Martin Gramc 6. (Post)socialist gender troubles: transphobia in Serbian leftist activism - Bojan Bilić Part 3: Culture 7. Trans artivism in the post-Yugoslav space: resistance and inclusion strategies in action - Aleksa Milanović 8. ‘The truth is what is in the body’: an interview with Aleks Zain - Slađana Branković 9. Queering sevdah: gender-nonconformity in the traditional music of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Tea Hadžiristić

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Book SynopsisIn 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld’s assistant on a lecture tour around the world.Racism and the Making of Gay Rights shows how Hirschfeld laid the groundwork for modern gay rights, and how he did so by borrowing from a disturbing set of racist, imperial, and eugenic ideas.Following Hirschfeld and Li in their travels through the American, Dutch, and British empires, from Manila to Tel Aviv to having tea with Langston Hughes in New York City, and then into exile in Hitler’s Europe, Laurie Marhoefer provides a vivid portrait of queer lives in the 1930s and of the turbulent, often-forgotten first chapter of gay rights.Trade Review“Marhoefer's achievement in Racism and the Making of Gay Rights is not just to place Li back into the lecture halls and the steamships of their shared journey, but also to brilliantly reframe Hirschfeld as a man of his era, a man who developed and popularized the concept of ‘homosexuality’ in a world that was shaped by the fact of empire … This book should be required reading for anybody with a professional, political, or personal interest in the ‘homosexual.’” -- Lauren Stokes, Northwestern University * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Maps Introduction: Manila Bay, Philippines, July 1931 1. “Einstein of Sex”: Magnus Hirschfeld at the End of the First Century of Gay Rights, North Atlantic Ocean, November 1930 2. The Empire of Queer Love: Berlin, Sometime between 1910 and 1914 3. Hirschfeld and Li Shiu Tong Meet: Feminism and Queer Attraction at the China United Apartments, International Settlement, Shanghai, May 1931 4. The Fight against Sexual Oppression is a Fight against Empire: Jawaharlal Nehru’s house, Allahabad, India, 1931 5. Are Homosexuals Like a Race? Analogy and the Making of the Sexual Minority 6. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Theory of the Races 7. Tea with Langston Hughes: Hirschfeld’s Anti-Blackness and Queer Black New York: Winter of 1930 8. Making Jews White: Tel Aviv, Palestine, Winter of 1932 9. Magnus Hirschfeld’s Queer Eugenics: Berlin, Germany, Manila, Philippines, Pasadena, California, United States, and Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia 10. “And What about Women?” 11. The Exile: Athens to Nice, 1932 to 1935 12. Li Shiu Tong’s Queer Masculinities: The Hotel Baur au Lac, Zurich, Late 1930s 13. Li Shiu Tong’s Defiant Sexology: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1974 to 1993 Conclusion: Li Shiu Tong’s Berlin and Magnus Hirschfeld’s America Bibliography

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Book SynopsisAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships—are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the “A” of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of as

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating portrait of young LGBTQ people in China, the latest addition to the acclaimed photobook series celebrating LGBTQ communities around the world Same-sex relationships have been an accepted part of Chinese culture for centuries. It was only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, under the influence of the West, that homophobia became more prevalent; and under Mao, homosexuality was criminalized. By the turn of the last millennium, same-sex relationships were once again legal, and by 2001, homosexuality had been declassified as a mental disorder. Polling suggests that the younger generation embraces sexual diversity and LGBTQ rights. But the stigma against queer people still remains. Recent reports from China have noted government attempts to clamp down on LGBTQ media and events, and numerous citizens are still being sent by family members to conversion therapy. Photographer Sarah Mei Herman first started photographing young queer people and their personal relationships during an artist residency in Xiamen in Fujian Province on China’s southeastern coast. As she explored what drew these people together, she herself built up close friendships with her subjects and, even after her residency had ended, returned to Xiamen to photograph them, capturing the way they have changed over the course of a number of years. The sixteenth entry in The New Press’s worldwide LGBTQ photobook series, Solace is a stunning collection of full-color photos in a beautiful, affordable volume. It provides a portrait of young people navigating the ambiguities of friendship and sexuality as they enter adulthood and grapple with what it means to be queer in modern-day China. Solace was designed by Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS).Trade ReviewPraise for Solace:“Solace brings to light people who live too often hidden from our view. Her photography allows us to open up to them and allows them to open up to us.”—Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of Photo Elysée

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Book SynopsisHeartfelt personal accounts from transgender people fighting for the right to serve in the military Prior to coming out as transgender I served the first several years of my career under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, hiding my sexual orientation out of the constant fear of expulsion. I then found myself in the same predicament as when I first joined, wanting nothing more than to serve my country and do my job, but at the cost of sacrificing a major part of who I am. . . . This time, however, I decided that I could no longer sacrifice my own well-being, my own authentic self.Mak Vaden, Warrant Officer 1, U.S. Army National Guard, 2006-presentI have traveled around the world. . . . I have been on five cutters with eleven years of sea time and commanded the Coast Guard cutter Campbell. I have negotiated treaties and fostered international law enforcement cooperation. I have stopped drug smugglers and seized illegal fishing vessels on the high seas. And, I aTrade ReviewAn exquisite book about serving in the U.S. military as a transgender person, with just enough historical and sociological context to make the volume’s personal stories that much more meaningful ... A simple description can’t do justice to the beauty, elegance, and courage displayed here. Readers will want to meet and spend time with these contributors. A worthwhile collection, highly recommended for all readers. * STARRED Library Journal *With Honor and Integrity shares the pain of the closet and the triumph of transition for transgender patriots. Their stories underscore how policies of integrity and truth serve our nation best. Our nation's thanks goes to the brave souls who have blazed trails and shared their truths. -- C. Dixon Osburn, co-founder of the Servicemembers Legal Defense NetworkWith Honor and Integrity is a must-read book by two of the nation's leading experts. This volume is a badly needed contribution to our understanding of military service by transgender personnel, but it’s also much more than that, providing invaluable historical context and insightful policy analysis. Most of all, it centers transgender and gender-diverse Americans who show, in their own voices, that it’s possible to live authentically while serving in uniform. -- Aaron Belkin, Director of the Palm CenterThe world has waited too long to hear directly from the transgender patriots who have put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us. Now, at last, two leading voices in the field who have worn the uniform themselves, have brought together an extraordinary collection of first-hand accounts by active-duty service members and veterans, officers and enlisted personnel, those who have undergone transition and those who are doing so or may in the future. In the process, Máel Embser-Herbert and Bree Fram have made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of gender and military service, showing once again what it means to serve their country. -- Nathaniel Frank, author of Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to AmericaThe experiences of transgender servicemembers have been all too scant in analyses of the US military's anti-LGBT history. With Honor and Integrity ameliorates this absence, powerfully demonstrating the impact of gendered military policy on the trans and gender nonconforming people who serve under its watchful eye. In their own words, the trans servicemembers that Embser-Herbert and Fram profile show the difference that supportive—or unsupportive—supervisors, colleagues, and policies can make. This extremely timely intervention is a must-read for military scholars and policymakers alike. -- Catherine Connell, author of the forthcoming A Few Good Gays: The US Military’s Incomplete Gender and Sexuality RevolutionThe editors succeed mightily in producing a volume about the challenges and rewards of military service for transgender troops that will engage a wide readership. All libraries should acquire this necessary title. -- C. Pinto * Choice *

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Book Synopsis'A vital book' JUNO ROCHE'Beautifully illustrated and fascinating' MEG-JOHN BARKER'Fun and fact-filled' SUSAN STRYKERThis inspiring collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential transgender, non-binary and intersex figures throughout history.Showcasing the diversity of gender identities and expressions that have existed in all cultures alongside developments from recent years, the extraordinary stories in this book highlight the achievements and legacies of those who have fought to be themselves, whatever their gender. From activists, soldiers and historical leaders through to pirates, actors and artists, this book explores the life and times of over fifty trans and intersex trailblazers in their fight for equality, acceptance and change. Poignant, educational and empowering, these are the gender pioneers everyone needs to know about.Trade ReviewGender Pioneers is a fun, fact-filled, easy-to-read romp through the long history of gender-diversity in cultures around the world. It places contemporary trans identities in a broader context to show there's nothing new about being non-binary or changing gender. -- Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's RevolutionOur history is rich, deep, diverse and expansive. Ancient even. This beautifully illustrated book documents our rich history clearly and gloriously. A vital book if setting out to discover our history(s) or to tell or retell the story the us. We have been pioneers pushing at the constrictive limits of gender for centuries. -- Juno Roche, author of Trans Power, Queer Sex and Gender ExplorersA beautifully illustrated and fascinating tour through the history of transness and gender creativity. A must for anyone who wants to know their gender history, or to access awesome possibility-models from across time and space. -- Meg-John Barker, author of Life Isn't Binary and Gender: A Graphic Guide

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Book SynopsisThe sparklingly funny debut picture book from Juno Dawson, bestselling writer and activist.Sometimes people say to me: What happened to your brother, Bill?'That's when I look them in the eye and say: Hun, you need to chill.'When Bill can't be found at school one day, the imaginations of the other children run wild. Is he on holiday? Is he lost in the park? Has he been eaten by a shark?! It's up to Bill's sister to explainA timely, perfectly positive and reassuring read.' Steven LentonGLORIOUS and heartwarming with so much love between the two covers. Just beautiful!' Alex T SmithJuno Dawson' debut picture book is a witty and fun-filled rhyming story about family, identity and allyship. Bold, joyful and warm-hearted, its message of love and inclusivity shines through on every page.Juno Dawson is the internationally bestselling author of Young Adult novels and non-fiction, including Clean and This Book Is Gay, as well as a novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and a columnist for Attitude Trade Review‘A timely, perfectly positive and reassuring read.’ – Steven Lenton ‘GLORIOUS and heartwarming with so much love between the two covers. Just beautiful!’ – Alex T Smith ‘Fun and important story full of love and inclusion’ – Kip Alizadeh ‘Witty, chatty take on gender and acceptance . . . lovely rhyming tale’ – Imogen Carter, Observer ‘Bold, joyful, and warm-hearted, its message of love and inclusivity shines through on every page.’ – Stephen Myler, RTÉ Guide ‘A witty and fun-filled rhyming story about family, identity and allyship. Bold, joyful and warm-hearted its message of love and inclusivity shines through on every page.’ – RTÉ Guide ‘It’s a wonderful story which my girls love. They… see it as a way to stand up to people being dismissive of being LGBTQIA+’ – raisingsmallreaders on Instagram ‘Its rebellious element is its defiance. This is such an important book right now’ – Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Praise for Juno’s other titles:‘A brave, funny, indignant look at what it means to grow up as LGTBQ.’ ― Metro, on This Book is Gay ‘The book every LGBT person would have killed for as a teenager, told in the voice of a wise best friend.’ ― Patrick Ness, on This Book is Gay ‘A positive, honest and utterly essential read for everyone.’ ― Booktrust, on What’s the T?

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAidan Key has written about the trans experience with profound compassion, not only for trans kids, but also for the families and schools that struggle to accept and support them. Detractors have often accused the movement for trans rights of being somehow immoral, but this book is written with such generosity of spirit and such irrefutable logic that it would be hard to take against it even if you were uncomfortable with or outraged about trans kids. And if you were already sympathetic to their experiences, this book would show you how to turn that sympathy into authentic support. Key's invaluable words should calm down the hysteria around a phenomenon that he reveals as a beautiful, rich component of human diversity. * Andrew Solomon, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Columbia University and author, Far from the Tree *Trans Children in Today's Schools is an urgently necessary guidebook to the ins and outs of teaching, parenting, understanding, and supporting trans kids as well as their classmates, families, communities, and schools. Thankfully, in contrast to that urgency, Aidan Key writes with his trademark balance of knowledge, experience, confidence, and calm. This book serves as an introduction and a guide but mostly as an even keel. Via lived and witnessed experience, hundreds of stories from a wide range of families, professional expertise, well-documented research, and the unwavering assurance that trans children — and by extension all children — can thrive, Trans Children in Today's Schools is practical and informative on its way to reassuring, inspiring, and empowering. * Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is *In Trans Children in Today's Schools, Aidan Key brilliantly does what many think is impossible - he breaks down the ever-changing and politically-charged world of gender and children in a manner that is simultaneously accessible and profound. In easy to understand prose, Trans Children in Today's Schools explains how to forge through difficult conversations regarding gender diversity to ensure that all children, not just trans kids, feel at home in our classrooms. Whether you are a parent, teacher, principal, or none of the above, Aidan Key provides the answers to those questions you've always wondered about, but never knew who to ask. * Dr. Kristina Olson, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University *This book is a priceless and long overdue resource for any educator looking to better understand the experience of transgender and gender diverse youth in schools. Key's clarity, depth of knowledge and attuned insight make this text comprehensive in scope and accessible in practice - a must read for all! * Benjamin Davis, ATR-BC, LCAT, Director, Full Spectrum Creative Arts Therapy, co-author of Gender: What Everyone Needs to Know *Every student needs a safe, affirming learning space to fully experience the transformational power of education. Achieving this space requires us to recognize the needs of trans students and commit to their inclusion. As we consider our educational future, we can greatly benefit from Aidan Key's compassionate approach and resolute commitment to trans and nonbinary student inclusion. His words show us how to achieve this future - a future where each and every student feels seen, heard, and affirmed. This is needed now more than ever. Trans Children in Today's Schools is a must-read for those committed to the catalyzing change needed to achieve authentically inclusive learning spaces. * Dr. Michelle C Reid, AASA National Superintendent of the Year 2021 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Aaron Devor Introduction 1. So Many Trans KidsDLWhat's Going On? 2. Supporting Trans Children 3. Teaching Gender: The AEIOU Framework 4. The Journey of Parents 5. Strategies for Families 6. Transition Considerations for Children 7. Challenges Faced by Trans Children 8. How to Talk to Children About Gender 9. How to Talk to Parents About Gender 10. Creating an Optimal School Environment: Educators 11. Creating an Optimal School Environment: Students and Parents 12. Parental Advocacy for Gender-Diverse Children in School 13. Bathrooms and Locker Rooms 14. Other Areas of Gender Separation 15. Sports: An Historical Perspective 16. Sports: Gender Inclusion in K-12 Athletics Epilogue: Looking Ahead Appendix A: Top Questions for Schools Appendix B: Student Support Plan Appendix C: Family Acceptance Project Posters Guidance Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1922 Robert Allertondescribed by the Chicago Tribune as the richest bachelor in Chicagomet a twenty-two-year-old University of Illinois architecture student named John Gregg, who was twenty-six years his junior. Virtually inseparable from then on, they began publicly referring to one another as father and son within a couple years of meeting. In 1960, after nearly four decades together, and with Robert Allerton nearing ninety, they embarked on a daringly nonconformist move: Allerton legally adopted the sixty-year-old Gregg as his son, the first such adoption of an adult in Illinois history. An Open Secret tells the striking story of these two iconoclasts, locating them among their queer contemporaries and exploring why becoming father and son made a surprising kind of sense for a twentieth-century couple who had every monetary advantage but one glaring problem: they wanted to be together publicly in a society that did not tolerate their love. Deftly exploring the nature of their design, domestic, and philanthropic projects, Nicholas L. Syrett illuminates how viewing the Allertons as both a same-sex couple and an adopted family is crucial to understanding their relationship's profound queerness. By digging deep into the lives of two men who operated largely as ciphers in their own time, he opens up provocative new lanes to consider the diversity of kinship ties in modern US history.Trade Review"The first lines of Nicholas Syrett’s third book, An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, had me hooked. . . [Syrett] takes us into the world of an Illinois couple—one born into a rich family with ties to the founding of the Union Stock Yards and the First National Bank of Chicago; the other an orphan in his early twenties, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for architecture with a part-time job and inheritance money." * Chicago Tribune *“The book brings a critical view to the gay intergenerational relationship. It reveals how same-sex love was transformed into familial ties but also into an open secret where the boundary between knowingness and unknowingness was always in suspension.” * DNA Magazine *"An intriguing, complicated, and critical account of a queer affair and one that demonstrates the difficulty of applying contemporary terminologies, practices, and values to past relationships, especially those with limited and latent evidence of queerness. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“Syrett’s expert portrait shakes up modern assumptions about queer coupledom. His richly nuanced interpretation reveals that the kinship claim of these men was not merely a front to hide their sexuality, but a deeply meaningful structure for their emotional and physical intimacy. Not quite the story of a same-sex marriage, An Open Secret shows that the history of male same-sex companionship is much queerer indeed.” * Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality *“Syrett escorts us into a world of wealth and privilege and creatively examines the decades-long intimacy of Allerton and Gregg. Filled with surprising revelations, Syrett’s account offers a new angle on the forms that queer life and love has taken in the past.” * John D’Emilio, author of Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives *“Syrett has crafted an eye-opening and engaging narrative, making a provocative contribution to queer history in his assertion that Allerton and Gregg may have had a relationship akin to bothmarriage and father to son—and that the two are not mutually exclusive. The story of this moneyed conservative couple disturbingly reveals how the privileged found community and refuge in open and secretive ways during a time of heightened homophobia.” * Amy Sueyoshi, author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi *“An Open Secret is a beautifully written, powerful account of queer domesticity, sympathetically humane but never simplistically celebratory of its subjects. Syrett deftly situates his biography in a broader history of twentieth-century LGBTQ communities and culture, offering a hot new take on the expansive queerness that defined some same-sex relationships before the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.” * Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands: A Trans History *"With previous books on the history of white college fraternities and the history of child marriage in the United States, Nicholas Syrett has a reputation for selecting fresh topics and conducting sound research and analysis. Adept with context, he has an impressive way of seeing topics, situations, and individuals in their singularity and as a means of exploring broad cultural themes. An Open Secret continues Syrett’s tradition of originality, attention to context, and rigorous analysis. The book is rich in ideas gracefully expressed." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Syrett’s portrait of Allerton and Gregg is a masterful intervention into both family history and the history of queerness." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Allerton Roots 2 Robert Allerton’s Queer Aesthetic 3 Travel and Itinerant Homosexuality 4 Becoming Father and Son 5 Lord of a Hawaiian Island 6 Queer Domesticity in Illinois and Hawai‘i 7 Legally Father and Son Conclusion: John Wyatt Gregg Allerton Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall.Trade Review“What might we learn about queer studies by exploring its intellectual debts to midcentury social scientists’ interest in underdogs, underworlds, and the dynamics of stigma? Heather Love’s provocative and defamiliarizing analysis asks us to see queer studies—its limitations and its transformational possibilities—anew. A critical intellectual history, teeming with ideas and unlikely engagements.” * Regina Kunzel, Yale University *“Underdogs is a well-crafted, subtle, and beautifully written foray into the worlds of mid-twentieth century social science by a humanities scholar who uncovers, in the fine details of descriptive empirical research, the largely unrecognized precursors of today’s queer studies. With keen focus, Love reveals new possibilities for scholarly, ethical, and political commitments to the defense of outcasts and outsiders. Love makes an impassioned claim that humanists and social scientists need one another—and need to set aside the tenacious methodological dogmas that keep them apart.” * Steven Epstein, Northwestern University *“Underdogs clarifies how the social science of deviance, like the queer theory that superseded it, depended on the figure of the outsider. Love asks queer theory to take social science methodologies, especially ‘underdog methods,’ seriously. At their best, these methods promise to keep queer theory open to surprise and alert to the potentialities of everyday life.” * Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis *"Heather Love’s Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory (University of Chicago Press) is an intervention into the field of queer studies. But it is also an important work of intellectual history, tracing a surprising new genealogy that locates the origins of 1990s ‘queer theory’ not in literary studies, but in mid-20th-century empirical social research. It will appeal to readers invested in the nascent effort to historicise queer studies, but also to those interested in the history of the social sciences." * History Today *"Underdogs seeks to rethink Queer Theory's ideological contributions through an excavation of the field's unacknowledged predecessors in the postwar social sciences. . . . [Love's] lucid prose and well-grounded interpretations make Underdogs a book that should interest readers who are immersed in Queer Theory and those who are not at all." * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Underdogs presents a thorough argument for queer theorists to understand the way their problematic forebearers have left indelible marks on the field. . . . Underdogs presents a careful, close reading of deviance studies, and invites theorists and scholars to reconsider their intellectual heritage." * LSE Review of Books *"This book concisely addresses the modern queer movement as Love challenges readers to critically consider that holding on to what is most valuable in queer critique may mean letting go of what is not... Highly recommended." * Choice *"This book has important implications for social work and social work education." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Underdogs is a meticulously researched study of postwar social scientific writing and its founding influence on queer studies. Its focus on method provides a potentially productive way to bring questions of politics and ethics back into a field that has lost much of its social and theoretical momentum since the late 1990s. Moreover, the sustained critique of the liberal humanist claim to integral subjectivity forms a timely intervention at the current moment, when younger generations increasingly appear invested in the type of sexual and gender identitarianism that both postwar social science and queer theory, in however diverging ways, have so persistently been trying to overhaul. For this reason alone, Underdogs is a powerful and important achievement." * American Literary History Online *"Underdogs offers a thoughtful and clear analysis. . . a first step in recognizing and untangling queer ideals for a more complete intellectual history on queer thought." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Beginning with Stigma 1 The Stigma Archive 2 Just Watching 3 A Sociological Periplum 4 Doing Being Deviant Afterword: The Politics of Stigma Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWith Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the third sex of Indiaindividuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality.

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Book SynopsisA pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall.Trade Review“What might we learn about queer studies by exploring its intellectual debts to midcentury social scientists’ interest in underdogs, underworlds, and the dynamics of stigma? Heather Love’s provocative and defamiliarizing analysis asks us to see queer studies—its limitations and its transformational possibilities—anew. A critical intellectual history, teeming with ideas and unlikely engagements.” * Regina Kunzel, Yale University *“Underdogs is a well-crafted, subtle, and beautifully written foray into the worlds of mid-twentieth century social science by a humanities scholar who uncovers, in the fine details of descriptive empirical research, the largely unrecognized precursors of today’s queer studies. With keen focus, Love reveals new possibilities for scholarly, ethical, and political commitments to the defense of outcasts and outsiders. Love makes an impassioned claim that humanists and social scientists need one another—and need to set aside the tenacious methodological dogmas that keep them apart.” * Steven Epstein, Northwestern University *“Underdogs clarifies how the social science of deviance, like the queer theory that superseded it, depended on the figure of the outsider. Love asks queer theory to take social science methodologies, especially ‘underdog methods,’ seriously. At their best, these methods promise to keep queer theory open to surprise and alert to the potentialities of everyday life.” * Elizabeth Freeman, University of California, Davis *"Heather Love’s Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory (University of Chicago Press) is an intervention into the field of queer studies. But it is also an important work of intellectual history, tracing a surprising new genealogy that locates the origins of 1990s ‘queer theory’ not in literary studies, but in mid-20th-century empirical social research. It will appeal to readers invested in the nascent effort to historicise queer studies, but also to those interested in the history of the social sciences." * History Today *"Underdogs seeks to rethink Queer Theory's ideological contributions through an excavation of the field's unacknowledged predecessors in the postwar social sciences. . . . [Love's] lucid prose and well-grounded interpretations make Underdogs a book that should interest readers who are immersed in Queer Theory and those who are not at all." * Gay & Lesbian Review *"Underdogs presents a thorough argument for queer theorists to understand the way their problematic forebearers have left indelible marks on the field. . . . Underdogs presents a careful, close reading of deviance studies, and invites theorists and scholars to reconsider their intellectual heritage." * LSE Review of Books *"This book concisely addresses the modern queer movement as Love challenges readers to critically consider that holding on to what is most valuable in queer critique may mean letting go of what is not... Highly recommended." * Choice *"This book has important implications for social work and social work education." * Affilia: Feminist Inquiry in Social Work *"Underdogs is a meticulously researched study of postwar social scientific writing and its founding influence on queer studies. Its focus on method provides a potentially productive way to bring questions of politics and ethics back into a field that has lost much of its social and theoretical momentum since the late 1990s. Moreover, the sustained critique of the liberal humanist claim to integral subjectivity forms a timely intervention at the current moment, when younger generations increasingly appear invested in the type of sexual and gender identitarianism that both postwar social science and queer theory, in however diverging ways, have so persistently been trying to overhaul. For this reason alone, Underdogs is a powerful and important achievement." * American Literary History Online *"Underdogs offers a thoughtful and clear analysis. . . a first step in recognizing and untangling queer ideals for a more complete intellectual history on queer thought." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Beginning with Stigma 1 The Stigma Archive 2 Just Watching 3 A Sociological Periplum 4 Doing Being Deviant Afterword: The Politics of Stigma Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The first lines of Nicholas Syrett’s third book, An Open Secret: The Family Story of Robert and John Gregg Allerton, had me hooked. . . [Syrett] takes us into the world of an Illinois couple—one born into a rich family with ties to the founding of the Union Stock Yards and the First National Bank of Chicago; the other an orphan in his early twenties, attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for architecture with a part-time job and inheritance money." * Chicago Tribune *“The book brings a critical view to the gay intergenerational relationship. It reveals how same-sex love was transformed into familial ties but also into an open secret where the boundary between knowingness and unknowingness was always in suspension.” * DNA Magazine *"An intriguing, complicated, and critical account of a queer affair and one that demonstrates the difficulty of applying contemporary terminologies, practices, and values to past relationships, especially those with limited and latent evidence of queerness. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *“Syrett’s expert portrait shakes up modern assumptions about queer coupledom. His richly nuanced interpretation reveals that the kinship claim of these men was not merely a front to hide their sexuality, but a deeply meaningful structure for their emotional and physical intimacy. Not quite the story of a same-sex marriage, An Open Secret shows that the history of male same-sex companionship is much queerer indeed.” * Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality *“Syrett escorts us into a world of wealth and privilege and creatively examines the decades-long intimacy of Allerton and Gregg. Filled with surprising revelations, Syrett’s account offers a new angle on the forms that queer life and love has taken in the past.” * John D’Emilio, author of Queer Legacies: Stories from Chicago’s LGBTQ Archives *“Syrett has crafted an eye-opening and engaging narrative, making a provocative contribution to queer history in his assertion that Allerton and Gregg may have had a relationship akin to bothmarriage and father to son—and that the two are not mutually exclusive. The story of this moneyed conservative couple disturbingly reveals how the privileged found community and refuge in open and secretive ways during a time of heightened homophobia.” * Amy Sueyoshi, author of Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi *“An Open Secret is a beautifully written, powerful account of queer domesticity, sympathetically humane but never simplistically celebratory of its subjects. Syrett deftly situates his biography in a broader history of twentieth-century LGBTQ communities and culture, offering a hot new take on the expansive queerness that defined some same-sex relationships before the emergence of the modern LGBTQ rights movement.” * Jen Manion, author of Female Husbands: A Trans History *"With previous books on the history of white college fraternities and the history of child marriage in the United States, Nicholas Syrett has a reputation for selecting fresh topics and conducting sound research and analysis. Adept with context, he has an impressive way of seeing topics, situations, and individuals in their singularity and as a means of exploring broad cultural themes. An Open Secret continues Syrett’s tradition of originality, attention to context, and rigorous analysis. The book is rich in ideas gracefully expressed." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *"Syrett’s portrait of Allerton and Gregg is a masterful intervention into both family history and the history of queerness." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Allerton Roots 2 Robert Allerton’s Queer Aesthetic 3 Travel and Itinerant Homosexuality 4 Becoming Father and Son 5 Lord of a Hawaiian Island 6 Queer Domesticity in Illinois and Hawai‘i 7 Legally Father and Son Conclusion: John Wyatt Gregg Allerton Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stephen Vider’s crisply written, gorgeously illustrated book on queer domesticity traces the transformation of the private sphere over the second half of the twentieth century in the United States. Home-life for LGBTQ people, he argues, evolved from a haven from state-sanctioned homophobia, to a revolutionary alternative to the heteronormative household, before ultimately becoming a homonormative domain entitled to legal protection. Each chapter is fascinating and fresh in its own way, and add up to something more than the sum of its parts: this is an important corrective to a queer historiography that has focused almost entirely on the public sphere." * Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution *“The Queerness of Home is a consequential achievement. Like any historian worth their salt, Vider knows how to tell a tale: this book’s prose is witty and clear as a mountain stream. More than that, it makes an irrefutable case that twentieth-century domestic environments have been momentous for LGBTQ individuals in the modern United States.” * Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture *“This strikingly original book recovers the unexpected significance of queer forms of home life to LGBTQ people and politics since the mid-twentieth century. Ranging from the gay marriages and camp cookbooks of the 1950s and 1960s to the communes, queer homeless youth shelters, and lesbian feminist experiments in domestic redesign of the post-Stonewall years, Vider provides new insights into the intimate lives and broadest political claims of queer folk—and the meaning of domesticity itself. Creatively researched, beautifully written, and unfailingly smart, this is a first-rate work of revisionist history.” * George Chauncey, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 *“An important history of how LGBTQ peoples make and sustain the homes of their choice and fight back against norms that oppress them. Vider reveals the lives, labors, and imaginations of LGBTQ home-makers, whose experiments with queer domesticities unfurl in vivid storytelling and amazing archival photographs.” * Nayan Shah, author of Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West *"Vider’s examination of the recent history of activist domesticity in the United States draws upon an extensive breadth of personal, public, and material sources. In its decade-by-decade chronicle the book discusses efforts to fit into the conformist households of the early Cold War, and examines later struggles to build alternative forms of domesticity, through communal living and rethinking architecture. . . . As well, despite its setting in a time of repression and epidemic, this is not a dark book. LGBTQ agency is at its core, and the narrative is a chronicle of contestation, adaptation, imagination, and, above all, creating community. In the face of hegemonic exclusion and repression, the activists in Vider’s study responded with art and humor and radical caregiving." * Journal of History *"Stephen Vider’s innovative new book, The Queerness of Home, offers a sweeping account of the centrality of the home and homemaking in challenging and renegotiating concepts of gender, sexuality, belonging, citizenship, and family, among many others, in the United States since the mid-twentieth century . . . Vider’s book is a most welcome contribution to many fields." * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Politics and Performance of Home Part One. Integrations Chapter One. “Something of a Merit Badge”: Lesbian and Gay Marriage and Romantic Adjustment Chapter Two. “Oh Hell, May, Why Don’t You People Have a Cookbook?”: Camp Humor and Gay Domesticity Part Two. Revolutions Chapter Three. “The Ultimate Extension of Gay Community”: Communal Living, Gay Liberation, and the Reinvention of the Household Chapter Four. “Fantasy Is the Beginning of Creation”: Imagining Lesbian Feminist Architecture Part Three. Reforms Chapter Five. “Some Hearts Go Hungering”: Homelessness and the First Wave of LGBTQ Shelter Activism Chapter Six. “Picture a Coalition”: Community Caregiving and the Politics of HIV/AIDS at Home Epilogue: The Futures of the Queer Home Acknowledgments Notes Index

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