no, i’m not committing suicide. but i do need a bit of assistance.
for those who don’t know, i work at my university’s lgbt center. we have a smallish library which is woefully under-stocked and out-of-date. since none of my coworkers really care for books or libraries as much i do, i have made it my task this year to collect books i think need to be on our shelves.
in particular, i am looking for novels featuring trans* characters (especially intersex and genderqueer characters);non-fiction on intersex people; non-fiction on intersectionality (e.g. race in the lgbt community, sexism in the lgbt community); non-fiction on the modern sexuality spectrum (specifically books which candidly and accurately discuss asexuality, pansexuality and polyamory); fiction featuring asexual characters; and fiction featuring LGBT characters of color.
if you have ANY recommendations at all, please let me know!!
i will be collecting books until april, so there’s plenty of time to think it over!
(p.s. if you would like to DONATE any books, please send me an ask here. i’ll give you my shipping address.)
any help you can give is greatly appreciated!
This website contains a good list of novels that involve characters being transplanted into bodies of a different or alternate gender. I’m afraid that I haven’t read many of them in order to know the extent to which they delve into this subject, but it’s a good jumping off point: http://www.susans.org/reference/tsbooks.html
I’d also recommend:
“Queer Pulp: Perverted Passions from the Golden Age of the Paperback” by Susan Stryker
“In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives” by Judith Halberstam
“Tipping the Velvet” by Sarah Waters
“The Danish Girl” by David Ebershoff
“Trans-Sister Radio” by Chris Bohjalian
“I am my Own Wife” by Doug Wright
“Will Grayson, Will Grayson” by John Green and David Levithan
“L’amour sans le faire“ by Geraldin Levi Joosten-vain Vilsteren
“Lessons from the Intersexed“ by Suzanne J. Kessler
“Intersex and Identity“ by Sharon E. Preves
“Luna“ by Julie Anne Peters
Also “Becoming a Visible Man” by Jamison Green and “Stone Butch Blues” by Leslie Feinberg are great books.
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I really enjoyed I am J, by Cris Beam. It’s my favorite trans* themed book, of those that I have read. Hero, by Perry...
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I’m the author...Gay, which features gay, bisexual...asexual...
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I wish I could think of more, but off the top of my head I can only think of Luna by Julie Anne Peters. It’s a good...
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Off the top of my librarian head… A dear friend of mine in library school put this site together that could be of help...
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Also “Becoming a Visible Man” by Jamison Green and “Stone Butch Blues” by Leslie Feinberg are great books.
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This website contains a good list of novels that involve characters being transplanted into bodies of a different or...
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Crap, the library I’m working at has nothing immediately relevant, and the history of cataloging on these subjects is...
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Intersectionality has always been interesting to me, as...books that focus...
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