"[...] the issue isn’t really about understanding transgender and gender nonconforming people, so much as it’s about respecting us and trusting us as experts on ourselves." Read More
Best queer literary sex, defining trans literature, and queer Kenyan anthologies Read More
The conference brought together scholars, writers, and activists to explore, discuss and create new directions in transgender, transexual, two-spirit and genderqueer poetry, literature and performance. Read More
Tom Léger of Topside Press, AJ Bryce of Trans Genre Press, author Ryka Aoki (Seasonal Velocities), author and editor Sassafras Lowrey (Kicked Out, Roving Pack, forthcoming), author Elliott DeLine (Refuse), and editor Morty Diamond of Bodies of Work Magazine took some time to talk with Lambda Literary and offer some revelatory commentary on transgender literature. Read More
Last February, Cheryl Morgan published an essay entitled, “Is There, or Should There Be, Such a Thing as ‘Trans Lit’?”...
“I absolutely believe that writing and publishing erotica, especially for minorities, is a political act. We must write our own...
“I think that whenever you’re writing a book about a community or an idea that is widely misunderstood you are...
There’s a problem right away. If someone like Gore Vidal or Jeffrey Eugenides writes a book about a trans person it is hailed as brilliantly edgy, but if a trans person does the same thing it is likely to be rejected as the work of a self-obsessed weirdo. Read More
