Normal Life

Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law

Dean Spade

Brand new from South End Press!Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and “equality” strategies of mainstream gay...

Taking My Life

Jane Rule

Jane Rule was a successful Canadian author (well, really she was born in New Jersey but…), who won many accolades for her novels, essays and short story collections, which most often featured...

Captive Genders

Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Nat Smith & Eric A. Stanley

Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind,...

Tango

My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

Justin Vivian Bond

Recently hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in The New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this staggeringly candid and hilarious...

The Revolution Starts at Home

Confronting Violence within Activist Communitites

Ching-In Chen

The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. Nearly one in three women in the United States will experience intimate violence in her lifetime. And while intimate violence...

Persistence

All Ways Butch and Femme

Ivan E. Coyote

In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue...

Edward Carpenter

A Life of Liberty and Love

Sheila Rowbotham

Challenging both capitalism and the values of Western civilization, Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth...

Gender Outlaws

The Next Generation

S. Bear Bergman

Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear...

Against Equality

Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage

Ryan Conrad

While what feels like the entirety of the gay and lesbian movement is marching in unison towards some vague notion of equality, the Against Equality collective has been quietly assembling a digital...