Summary
This groundbreaking and inspiring collection of dozens of our most original trans voices is a "smart, sexy, and entertaining" (Jack Halberstam) exploration of gender today.
Transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again, and today's trans and nonbinary people, genderqueers, and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. Edited by the original gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers--new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected publications. Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.
Transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again, and today's trans and nonbinary people, genderqueers, and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. Edited by the original gender outlaw, Kate Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, Gender Outlaws collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers--new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected publications. Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.
Contents
We're all someone's freak / Gwendolyn Ann SmithTrans-corporation: a benefit analysis of a transgender man in a corporate setting / CT Whitley
A slacker and delinquent in basketball shoes / Raquel (Lucas) Platero Méndez
The old folks at home / Janet Hardy
Dear Austin special needs bathroom / StormMiguel Florez
Identity, schmidentity / Telyn Kusalik
Letting my light out / Leona Lo
Imposter / Quince Mountain
Jihad / Azadeh Arsanjani
Are you a boy or a girl? / Roe-Anne Alexander
The big reveal / Sherilyn Connelly
The wrong body / Scott Turner Schofield
Performance piece / Julia Serano
The perfect storm / Sam Peterson
A drag queen born in a female body / Adrian Dalton (aka Lola Lypsinka)
Dual citizenship / Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran
Trans-ing gender: the surgical option / Mercedes Allen
I am the "I" / Sean Saifa Wall
Make me a vessel for anomaly / Simon Iris
I am transreal: a reflection on/of becoming Dragon / Micha Cardenas
Taking up space / Kyle Lukoff
Transliteration / Fransisco Fernandez
Daddy gets the big piece of chicken / Fran Varian
On living well and coming free / Ryka Aoki
Faygele / Dane Kuttler
The secret life of my wiener / Cory Schmanke Parrish
In our skin / A. P. Andre and Luis Gutierrez-Mock
Glitter, glitter, on the wall, who's the queerest of them all? / Esmé Rodriguez (aka T. Kupin-Escobar)
Transfag robot manifesto / Sam Orchard
Transcension / Katie Diamond and Johnny Blazes
Intermission / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
The manly art of pregnancy / J. Wallace
Transgressing gender at Passover with Jesus! / Peterson Toscano
Today's new name may be tomorrow's old / Sassafras Lowrey
Calling for the recognition of self-love as a legitimate relationship in the game of life / Andrea Jenkins
Why you don't have to choose a white boy name to be a man in this world / Kenji Tokawa
Talk Derby to me / Uzi Sioux
Seeworthy / E. S. Weistbrot
Marsha P. Johnson: ten suns the transformer / Tamiko Beyer
She-male rising / Shawna Virago
Princess / Christine Smith
Shot, stabbed, choked, strangled, broken: a ritual for November 20th / Roz Kaveney
Proof / Bo Luengsuraswat
The voice / Joy Ladin
The role of culture in cleansing gender outlaws: the Lamal Ceremony of the Maasai, Kenya / Judy Wawira Gichoya and Priscilla Maina
Shooting s(t)ar / Amir Rabiyah
Pilgrimage / Zev Al-Walid
Cisgender privilege: on the privileges of performing normative gender / Evin Taylor.
Published Reviews
Publisher's Weekly Review: "Additional Information
Subjects |
Transsexuals
-- Identity.
Gender identity. Gender reassignment surgery. Sex (Psychology) |
Publisher | Berkeley, Calif. :Seal Press :2010 Distributed by Publishers Group West, |
Contributors |
Bornstein, Kate,
1948- Bergman, S. Bear, 1974- |
Language |
English |
Description |
302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
ISBN | 9781580053082 (pbk.) 1580053084 (pbk.) |
Other | Classic View |