Explore these titles to learn about past and present challenges faced by transgender communities for Transgender Day of Remembrance on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked.
Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity by LJ Slovin
A look at the labour trans and gender-nonconforming youth perform in high school as they navigate their relationships with teachers, peers, the curriculum and policy to create other, queerer worlds in which to exist.
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.
Gender Rebels: 30 Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Expansive Heroes Past and Present by Katherine Locke
Explore the history of trans and nonbinary people throughout history in this beautifully illustrated book for young teens.
None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza
A memoir exploring the meaning of gender and the role it plays in a world that rigidly and aggressively enforces the binary.
