An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

A disabled vigilante trying to save her kidnapped girlfriend, a little mermaid who loves her sisters more than suitors, a slayer whose virgin blood keeps attracting monsters and more, the works in Being Ace are anything but conventional. Whether in psychiatric hospitals, space ships, haunted cemeteries, or under the sea, no two aces are the same in 15 unique works that highlight asexual romance, aromantic love, and the many other sub-identities of the asexual spectrum umbrella. From a mixture of established and emerging YA writers, contributors include Rosiee Thor, Akemi Dawn Bowman, Linsey Miller, and Moniza Hossain.

Drawing on her own experiences, Kai Cheng Thom presents powerful, moving and hopeful essays and poems that address problems within the queer community.

Ausgehend von eigenen Erfahrungen präsentiert Kai Cheng Thom kraftvolle, bewegende und hoffnungsvolle Essays und Gedichte, die sich mit Problemen innerhalb der queeren Gemeinschaft auseinandersetzen.

Weitere Bücher von Kai Cheng Thom gibt es hier.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book; Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith?

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

9 tolle Geschichten, darunter vier mit trans* Charakteren, eine mit aromantischen, zwei mit schwulen, eine mit lesbischen und eine mit Personen, die Neopronomen (they, ey/eir und xyr) verwenden. Zu Band 2 geht es hier.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

Queer characters getting their happy endings abound in this first book of a two-part collection. Discover pages upon pages of compelling stories about aromantic warriors, trans sorceresses, and modern-day LGBTQA+ quirky characters. Friendship, platonic love, and poly triads are all celebrated.

Lose yourself in masterfully woven tales wrapped in fantasy and magic, delve into a story that brings the eighties back to life in vibrant color, get lost in space, and celebrate everything queer.

Get ready for your queer adventure.

Table of Content:

“Miss Me With That Gay Shit (Please Don’t)” by Sacha Lamb

“Gifts of Spring” by Shira Glassman

“Wishing On The Perseid” by Kay C. Sulli

“Hunt and Peck” by Teresa Theophano

“First Light at Dawn” by Nyri Bakkalian

“Dragons Do Not” by Evelyn Deshane

“Planchette” by Carolyn Gage

“Birthday Landscapes” by E H Timms

“A Gallant Rescue” by A.P. Raymond

8 tolle Geschichten Charakteren, die trans*, nichtbinär, bi, schwul, lesbisch, butch sind und/oder Neopronomen verwenden (they, ze/zir, eir). Zu Band 1 geht es hier.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

In part two of Queerly Loving, our authors bring you short stories with characters across the fantastic queer spectrum, with endings that will leave you warm and smiling. Trans love interests, demisexual characters trying to find their way in the world, bisexual characters dealing with a heartbreak in the best way, and lesbians on escapades.

Dragons roar into life, dystopian futures unfold, mermaids enjoy space voyages, and modern-day adventures will curl your toes and make you cheer. There are first kisses, friends that are like kin, and aromantic characters discovering their place among a queer-normative family.

Get ready for your queer adventure.

Table of Content:

“More than Anything” by Eden S. French

“Tenderness” by Xan West

“A Kiss between Altar Boys” by Andrew L. Huerta

“Kin, Painted” by Penny Stirling

“Gasping for Air” by Pascal J. Ellen

“The Warrior and the Dragon” by M. Hollis

“Detective and Mrs. Baker” by Aila Boyd

“The Mermaid and the Pirate” by Cameron Van Sant

shaved heads and soft bellies, carabiners and cruising, truck drivers and leather jackets, broad shoulders and bottom growth, old names, new names, dysphoria and desire ...

Across seventy-two works this anthology explores queer masculinities in all their complexity and interconnection. At its centre are butches, studs, trans men, and everyone in between.

Focusing on the ways we see each other, want each other, and find connection across shared experiences of gender and becoming, this anthology celebrates queer masculine intimacy in all its forms.

Among the contributors are well known names such as Skyler Whiterspoon, Rejka (Andreas), Mercy Thokozane Minah, Butch Wilder, Sritama Sen and Elin Laut. Other contributors have started making a name for themselves in recent years, such as Ranger Liu, Ramses Wolfe and Cedar Meik.

The works range from poems, essays and short stories over paintings, sketches and prints to photos and text art. Thus, they cover a wide range of genres and styles, tied together by their shared theme.

The book is mainly targeted towards butches, studs and trans men who are interested in other butches, studs and trans men. It is also targeted towards lesbians and queer people in general, as well as anyone who wants to understand queer relationships and masculinities. According to our insights, most potential readers seem to be like 18-34 years old

tender, defiant, an unapologetically queer

An Interactive Guide to the Gender Binary

Dieses spannende Buch führt auf Reisen in verschiedene Gesellschaften mit unterschiedlichen Geschlechtersystemen, heutige, vergangene und ausgedachte. An jedem Kapitelende wird je nach Selbstidentifikation auf ein passendes Kapitel zum Weiterlesen verwiesen. Wunderbar geeignet zum Reflektieren und Diskutieren für Lesende aller Geschlechter oder einfach nur zum entpannten Lesen über verschiedene Möglichkeiten, was Geschlecht als Konzept in der Gesellschaft angeht.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

An accessible guide for learning about gender identity for those questioning their own genders, generally curious about gender, or interested in better understanding someone else's identity. If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box. Written in a choose-your-own path style, you'll explore over one hundred different scenarios that embrace nearly every definition of gender around the globe and throughout history in a refreshingly creative exploration of the ways gender colors and shapes our world.

In She/He/They/Me, Dr. Robyn Ryle, professor of sociology and gender studies at Hanover College in Indiana, thoughtfully discusses gender constructs, expectations, and transitions along with covering everything from the science, biology, and psychology of gender to the philosophy, legality and societal implications. This is a must-read for better understanding and celebrating LGBTQ+, nonbinary, and transgender identities and a great resource for parents of gender queer kids.

A Collection of Queer Short Stories

17 Kurzgeschichten, davon 9 mit Personen, die trans, agender oder nicht-binär sind und/oder das Pronomen they verwenden. Außerdem Stories mit Menschen, die aromantisch, asexuell, bisexuell, schwul oder lesbisch sind. Sehr lesenswerte Geschichten!

Verlagsbeschreibung:

There are times we all just need to forge onwards—or upwards. We can find that strength within ourselves, or people around us help. Sometimes, it’s both. In Queers Who Don’t Quit, queers across the spectrum hurdle the big, the small, and the unfathomable.

A cowboy and his boyfriend flee across the Martian desert with their stolen robot. Back on Earth, two aromantics bond over their shared love of pop culture. A trans woman finds herself between a rock and a hard place when someone from her past threatens to destroy her future. Space Boy remembers what it’s like to be in love with another boy, and two women have more in common than they think as they fall in love while cosplaying their favourite TV show. Queer men frolic at a gay beach balanced on sands of time. A bisexual, a widow, and a murderer walk into a bar–just wait for it, there’s a punchline. An enby down on their luck gets an offer from a goddess too good to refuse. In 1930s London, split ends are queerly healed. A queer college student seeks to rekindle a dying friendship during a trip to Paris. A trans teacher takes a stand against bigotry and finds love in the process. Love is found amongst giddiness, hard edges, and a darkly passionate theater. An ace vows to finally come out to her sister, and back in space, an arranged marriage connects two queer men. A woman discovers opening a queer bookshop isn’t all rainbows and sunshine. Adrift with her infantry company in one war, a trans warrior must face the ghosts of another. And on their first day back at work, someone can be the person we wish we’d met as a kid.

Join us in these queer stories of hope, resilience, and perseverance!

Mit / Written by A.P. Raymond, Eve Morton, Tabitha O’Connell, Nyri A. Bakkalian, James Penha, G Benson, Evie Riojas, Elna Holst, Addy Long, Cameron Van Sant, Cal Benitex, Ayelet Enisman, Ashton LaViolette, Alexis Ames, Aila Alvina Boyd, Zoe Brook

An Anthology of Identities and Experiences

To be trans and disabled means to have experienced harassment, discrimination, loneliness, often poverty, to have struggled with feeling unworthy of love.

To be trans and disabled means experiencing ableism within our trans communities and transphobia within our disabled communities.

To be trans and disabled means to love our fellow trans and disabled people harder than we could ever love ourselves.

This anthology brings together vulnerable stories, poems, plays, drawings, and personal essays. They explore how we make sense of ourselves, our intersections of identities and experiences, of how we are treated, and how much love we are capable of, sometimes even for ourselves.

Our Stories of Being Trans

Bewegende Kurzgeschichten über Freund*innenschaften unter queeren und trans* Personen vs. Dynamiken mit Herkunftsfamilien, Körperdysphorien, darüber nichtbinär und lesbisch zu sein, historische trans* Personen, Solidarität und gegenseitige Hilfe in der trans* Community, Neurodivergenz, Erfahrungen mit und nach OPs u.v.m.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

A visionary, moving and one-of-a-kind anthology of writing on what it means to be trans today and every day.

From the daily bite of anxiety as you go to leave the house, to the freedom found swimming in the wild, through to moments of queer rage and joy and the peculiar timeslip of reliving your adolescence, the stories in this collection reveal the untold lived realities of trans people to help inform, inspire and unite. Spanning a range of topics such as gender dysphoria, transphobia, chest binding, gender reassignment surgery, coming out in later life, migration and love and relationships, these unique first-person accounts celebrate the beauty and diversity of being trans and will empower others on their journey.

Showcasing eight new exciting trans writers, this extraordinary collection is a powerful and heartfelt love-letter to the trans community.

Mit einem Vorwort von / With a foreward by Meg-John Barker, Juno Roche und Sabah Choudry

Geschichten von / Stories by: Den Casey, Kole Fulmine, Danielle Hopkins, Kirrin Medcalf, Harry Mizumoto, Tash Oakes-Monger, Edward Whelan, Ezra Woodger.

Preislich reduziert wegen kleiner Delle am oberen Coverrand und ein paar Seiten bzw. Knicken in Coverecken und ein paar Seiten.

An Interactive Guide to the Gender Binary

Dieses spannende Buch führt auf Reisen in verschiedene Gesellschaften mit unterschiedlichen Geschlechtersystemen, heutige, vergangene und ausgedachte. An jedem Kapitelende wird je nach Selbstidentifikation auf ein passendes Kapitel zum Weiterlesen verwiesen. Wunderbar geeignet zum Reflektieren und Diskutieren für Lesende aller Geschlechter oder einfach nur zum entpannten Lesen über verschiedene Möglichkeiten, was Geschlecht als Konzept in der Gesellschaft angeht.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

An accessible guide for learning about gender identity for those questioning their own genders, generally curious about gender, or interested in better understanding someone else's identity. If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box. Written in a choose-your-own path style, you'll explore over one hundred different scenarios that embrace nearly every definition of gender around the globe and throughout history in a refreshingly creative exploration of the ways gender colors and shapes our world.

In She/He/They/Me, Dr. Robyn Ryle, professor of sociology and gender studies at Hanover College in Indiana, thoughtfully discusses gender constructs, expectations, and transitions along with covering everything from the science, biology, and psychology of gender to the philosophy, legality and societal implications. This is a must-read for better understanding and celebrating LGBTQ+, nonbinary, and transgender identities and a great resource for parents of gender queer kids.

Preislich reduziert wegen kleinem Knick in Coverecke. Auf der unteren Schnittkante steht das Wort Mängelexemplar geschrieben.

Collection of Letters From & For Queer Afro-diasporic People.

Sometimes, all you need to feel supported and continue to thrive, are the words from those that understand the path you were born into.

If you had the opportunity to address the person that changed your world for the better as you grew confidently into your beautiful Queer and Black identity, what would you write? What would you say to the person whose existence helped you develop into your authentic self or to the person that unknowingly helped you understand the meaning of „it gets better“?

In a time where long workdays and innumerable demands find us more and more isolated from each other, community care is both a revolutionary and a healing tool. There is unlimited power in supporting and nourishing those whom we share our roots, history, and identities with.

With this in mind, the unique and intimate letters in this book are a declaration of unapologetic love from Queer Black writers that have taken up a movement with the intentional purpose of supporting and uplifting the identities, bodies, and shared understandings of our Queer Black community across the diaspora. This book is a declaration of love, light, friendship, and community that reminds us we are valid; that our stories matter; and most importantly, we are here to stay as we continue to slay our way into the future our ancestors dreamed of.

Gemäß den Biografien am Beitragenden sind mindestens 12 der 41 Beitragenden trans, nichtbinär, agender oder haben Neopronomen. 7 bleiben anonym, ohne Selbstbeschreibung.

Das Exemplar hat einen kleinem Knick in einer Coverecke und ein paar Seiten. Ansonsten wie neu.

A Collection of Queer Short Stories

17 Kurzgeschichten, davon 9 mit Personen, die trans, agender oder nicht-binär sind und/oder das Pronomen they verwenden. Außerdem Stories mit Menschen, die aromantisch, asexuell, bisexuell, schwul oder lesbisch sind. Sehr lesenswerte Geschichten!

There are times we all just need to forge onwards—or upwards. We can find that strength within ourselves, or people around us help. Sometimes, it’s both. In Queers Who Don’t Quit, queers across the spectrum hurdle the big, the small, and the unfathomable.

A cowboy and his boyfriend flee across the Martian desert with their stolen robot. Back on Earth, two aromantics bond over their shared love of pop culture. A trans woman finds herself between a rock and a hard place when someone from her past threatens to destroy her future. Space Boy remembers what it’s like to be in love with another boy, and two women have more in common than they think as they fall in love while cosplaying their favourite TV show. Queer men frolic at a gay beach balanced on sands of time. A bisexual, a widow, and a murderer walk into a bar–just wait for it, there’s a punchline. An enby down on their luck gets an offer from a goddess too good to refuse. In 1930s London, split ends are queerly healed. A queer college student seeks to rekindle a dying friendship during a trip to Paris. A trans teacher takes a stand against bigotry and finds love in the process. Love is found amongst giddiness, hard edges, and a darkly passionate theater. An ace vows to finally come out to her sister, and back in space, an arranged marriage connects two queer men. A woman discovers opening a queer bookshop isn’t all rainbows and sunshine. Adrift with her infantry company in one war, a trans warrior must face the ghosts of another. And on their first day back at work, someone can be the person we wish we’d met as a kid.

Join us in these queer stories of hope, resilience, and perseverance!

Mit / Written by A.P. Raymond, Eve Morton, Tabitha O’Connell, Nyri A. Bakkalian, James Penha, G Benson, Evie Riojas, Elna Holst, Addy Long, Cameron Van Sant, Cal Benitex, Ayelet Enisman, Ashton LaViolette, Alexis Ames, Aila Alvina Boyd, Zoe Brook

Tolle Science-Fiction- und Fantasy-Kurzgeschichten, manche inhaltlich queer, andere nicht, darunter eine in einer Welt mit sechs Geschlechtern und einige mit Neopronomen. Zu jeder Story gibt es eine kleine Entstehungsgeschichte. Weitere Bücher von Charlie Jane Anders findet Ihr hier.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

A short story collection packed with infinite worlds and endless possibilities, from the electric mind of Charlie Jane Anders.

Cracking open science fiction and fantasy ideas with joyous exuberance, Anders delivers a riotous cavalcade of ideas. These stories of transformation and finding a place to call your own reinvent that unique hit of discovery that lives at the heart of genre fiction.

Witness vampire zombies and fairy werewolves in a barroom brawl, fully-immersive AR cat-brain MMORPGs, love in the form of tentacles and The Time Travel Club’s first successful experiment. Watch as two friends embark on an Epic Quest To Capture The Weapon That Threatens The Galaxy, or else they’ll never achieve their dream of opening a restaurant.

Whatever you do, don’t stop trying new things, and don’t be afraid of Even Greater Mistakes.

More Books by / Weitere Bücher von Ivan Coyote gibt es hier.

Preislich reduziert wegen kleinen Knicken in Coverecken und einigen Seiten.

An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Die Einleitung klingt schon mal sehr gut und aus dieser weiß ich, dass es mindestens eine Geschichte mit enby Charakter gibt und eine, die Afrofuturism mit Indigenous Futurism verwebt; und auch dass die Geschichten u. a. von Müttern, queerer Liebe, trans Liebe, Verwandtschaften handeln. Außerdem mag ich den Roman Johnny Appleseed des Herausgebers Joshua Whitehead sehr und bin zuversichtlich, dass dies eine tolle Kurzgeschichtensammlung von indigenen Autor*innen Nordamerikas ist. Verlagsbeschreibung:

A bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction, edited by the author of Jonny Appleseed.

This exciting and groundbreaking fiction collection showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) Indigenous writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories.

Here, readers will discover bioengineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, mother ships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. Love after the End demonstrates the imaginatively queer Two-Spirit futurisms we have all been dreaming of since 1492.

Contributors include Nathan Adler, Darcie Little Badger, Gabriel Castilloux Calderon, Adam Garnet Jones, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David Alexander Robertson, jaye simpson, and Nazbah Tom.

In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning “man-woman” or “transgender” in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices, femme tongues, broken colonial languages, and a tender queer subjectivity, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude.

Emerging from a creative process in spoken word and live performance, these poems transform the page into a stage where the queer femme body is written and mapped onto the colonial space of the home/island. Interwoven with Kreol, ZOM-FAM showcases a unique lyrical sensibility, a musicality influenced by the both unforgiving and soothing rhythms of the ocean, where the poet enunciates the complexity of their displaced Indo-African roots, “the lineage of silence / that we weave in-between our intimacies.”

Striking, vivid, tender, intimate, and political, ZOM-FAM is a beautifully wrought journey that articulates a contemporary decolonial poetics and offers a roadmap for colonized and displaced queer and trans voices to (re)imagine themselves into being.

Spaceships, man-eating mermaids, swords, demons, ghouls, thieves, hitchhikers, and life in the margins.

Margaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major and indie. Here, we have collected the best previously published work along with brand new material. Ranging in theme and tone, these imaginative tales bring the reader on a wild and moving ride. They’ll encounter a hacker who programs drones to troll CEOs into quitting; a group of LARPers who decide to live as orcs in the burned forests of Oregon; queer, teen love in a death cult; the terraforming of a climate-changed Earth; polyamorous love on an anarchist tea farm during the apocalypse; and much more. Killjoy writes fearless, mind-expanding fiction.

Margaret Killjoy is a transfeminine author born and raised in Maryland who was spent her adult life traveling with no fixed home.

A vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.

Featuring seventeen essays by trans people of color—spanning writers, scientists, actors, activists, and drag queens—Both/And explores what it means to live as a trans or gender nonconforming person of color today.

Acclaimed authors Akwaeke Emezi, Tanaïs, and Meredith Talusan share their stories alongside activist and organizer Raquel Willis and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Peppermint, as well as a host of rising literary talent. Each story is told with honesty, authenticity, and beauty. A nonbinary molecular biologist has nightmares about their estranged father transitioning. A writer revisits a casual hook-up when she discovered her womanhood. And a woman vacations with her wife in Hawaii, where she gets in touch with the fire goddess within. These stories depict real trans lives from trans points of view, at a time when these perspectives are most urgent and valuable.

Inspired by Electric Literature’s groundbreaking series and edited by the first Black, openly trans editor-in-chief of a major literary publication, Both/And uplifts and amplifies stories of queer joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery.

Winner, Indigenous Voices Award; finalist, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage and tenderness, the parameters of grief, trauma, displacement, and identity. Weaving together a past made murky by uncertainty and a present which exists in multitudes, Arielle Twist poetically navigates through what it means to be an Indigenous trans woman, discovering the possibilities of a hopeful future and a transcendent, beautiful path to regaining softness.

Empfohlen von den Autor*innen Kai Cheng Thom, Joshua Whitehead und Alok Vaid-Menon (die Links führen zu ihren Büchern bei trans*fabel).

Dead Dad Jokes is an unflinching take on family, loss and trauma. There is nothing quiet about Schminkey’s debut. Every page is raw, honest and unforgettable. Dead Dad Jokes brings the impact of addiction into crisp focus while also shattering our simplistic TV preconceptions about it. Ollie never lets the reader slip into the easy sadness of cliche – instead they guide us through the realities and contradictions of losing someone you love and of death – reminding us that they need not be one and the same.

Ollie Schminkey is a non-binary transgender poet/musician/artist living in St. Paul, MN. They facilitate, direct, coach, and host many organizations, including a weekly writing workshop called Well-Placed Commas, which serves primarily queer and trans writers. They’ve performed poems in 18 states, and their work has been featured everywhere from THEM to Upworthy. When they’re not writing and performing poetry, they spend their time making creepy+cute pottery under the name Sick Kitty Ceramics.

Während es hier vor allem um Verlust und Trauma geht, wird ein paar Mal auch Misgendern - z. B. während der Beerdigung des Vaters - thematisiert.

Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum

27 Geschichten von einer lobenswerten Bandbreite an Personen, darunter trans*, drag, nicht-binäre / genderfluide Personen, die schwul, lesbisch, bi, pansexuell, polyamorös und unterschiedlichen Alters sind und sehr unterschiedliche Lebenserfahrungen haben.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

Based on the hugely popular Coming Out Stories podcast, this empowering, humorous and deeply honest book invites you to share one of the most important moments in many LGBTQ+ people's lives.

From JP coming out to his reflection in the mirror, to Jacob coming out to their Mum over email, from Christine knowing she was trans as a young child, to Kerry coming out as a lesbian in her late thirties, all of the real life stories in this book show you there is no right or wrong way to come out, whatever your age and whatever your background.

Whether you're gay, pan, queer, bi, trans, non-binary, or an ally, this uplifting go-to resource is filled with helpful advice and tips on what to expect, and inspirational quotes from leading LGBTQ+ figures, to help you live your life as your most authentic self. Welcome to the family!

In Erwartung schöner Kurzgeschichten mit trans* Hauptcharakteren hab ich gleich mehrere Exemplare dieses Buchs bestellt. Die Geschichten sind auch sehr schön und zum Teil miteinander verwoben. Unerwartet musste ich auf einer Seite einen, wenn auch sehr kurzen, inter*-feindlichen Dialog lesen. Da ich die Bücher nicht zurückschicken kann, biete ich sie hier preisgünstig an, werde sie jedoch nicht nachbestellen.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days.

In "Hazel and Christopher," two childhood friends reconnect as adults after one of them has transitioned. In "Perfect Places," a woman grapples with undesirability as she navigates fetish play with a man. In "Couldn't Hear You Talk Anymore," the narrator reflects on her tumultuous life and what might have been as she recalls tender moments with another trans woman.

An ethereal meditation on partnership, sex, addiction, romance, groundedness, and love, the stories in A Dream of a Woman buzz with quiet intensity and the intimate complexities of being human.

Bicycling from a non-heteronormative, non-cisgender perspective

Eine schöne Sammlung von 14 Erfahrungsberichten übers Fahrrad-Fahren, trans- und queer-Sein von queeren, trans, agender, inter und nichtbinären Personen. Verlagsbeschreibung:

Bicycling as a sport, a means of transportation, and a passionate pursuit is explored here by transgender, nonbinary, and intersex authors and artists. This groundbreaking volume includes a diverse range of experiences

• A woman sets off on a long-distance tour across the desert, where she finds the courage she needs to continue back at home
• The executive director of a major advocacy organization walks us through his coming-out process and the precedent it set
• A young person survives school to find solace and identity in nature
• A contemplation of the parallels of building a bicycle and crafting one's own body

Bewegende, z. T. düstere Kurzgeschichten über queere Charaktere, trans* Personen und Außenseiter. CN: Gewalt, darunter Schläge, Lobotomie, Elektroschocks, Mord.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

Here is a wry, and at the same time dark and risk-taking, story collection from author (and baker) Alex DiFrancesco that pushes the boundaries of transgender awareness and filial bonds. Here is the hate between 16-year-old Junie, who is transitioning, and her mom's boyfriend Chad when the family moves into Chad's house on Lake Erie. And here is the love being tested between Sawyer and his dad, who named his boat after his child and resists changing it from Sara to Sawyer now. There is DiFrancesco's willingness to enter lands that are violent and comfortless in some of these stories, testing the limits of what it means to be human, sometimes returning stronger and wiser and sometimes not returning at all as their characters surge forward into unknown spaces.

Wegen leichter Transportschäden am Cover (sehr kleine Knicke) ist das Buch im Preis reduziert.

Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

Written by and for trans and non-binary survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, Written on the Body offers support, guidance and hope for those who struggle to find safety at home, in the body, and other unwelcoming places.

This collection of letters written to body parts weaves together narratives of gender, identity, and abuse. It is the coming together of those who have been fragmented and often met with disbelief. The book holds the concerns and truths that many trans people share while offering space for dialogue and reclamation.

Written with intelligence and intimacy, this book is for those who have found power in re-shaping their bodies, families, and lives.

Ebenfalls von Lexie Bean ist der autobiografisch gefärbte Roman The Ship We Built.

Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers (2nd edition)

The future is trans and nonbinary!

Trans Journalism 2007-2020

Eine schöne Sammlung von Artikeln (manche interessanter als andere, wie das in Sammlungen so ist) vor allem zu Trans* Themen von trans* Schrifstellerin Juliet Jacques.

Verlagsbeschreibung:

Juliet Jacques was one of the first trans writers in the UK to contribute broadly to both British and foreign media, writing widely about the trans experience. Spanning over a decade, Jacques' ground-breaking journalism about selfhood, society, art, politics, freedom, and gender identity, tracks the backlash against emerging trans rights and the rise of a new and more explicit form of media transphobia. Front Lines is a seminal collection of writings on trans and queer art, politics, and media, from a period in which the relationship between trans and non-binary people and the British media was exceptionally turbulent.

Jacques navigates the tension between wanting to simply write about art and culture and needing to counter the dishonest, damaging rhetoric being published about trans people in virtually every national newspaper in the UK. 'I never believed any journalism was objective, nor that there was any point in even trying to be,' writes Jacques in her introduction. 'Above all, activism is needed to fight this, with journalism to support it: there is no point in pretending to be objective in our work, as the stakes remain just as high as they were back in 2010, perhaps even higher...

We're entering a new phase of collective struggle, with new fronts and new tactics needed: I hope this book can help to inform that.' This crucial collection asks what we can learn from the last decade and, importantly, what we can do now. How can new writers take up the struggle for trans liberation? And what will the future of trans writing look like?