Transgender History Month

“An expansive exploration of the exciting lives of 30 trans people from 1850-1950 that radically changes everything you’ve been told about transgender history”

The first-ever Black history to center queer voices, this landmark study traces the lives of LGBTQ+ Black Americans from slavery to present day.

Black trans luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQ+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy.

In ‘The other Olympians,’ Michael Waters uncovers, for the first time, the gripping true stories of Koubek, Weston, and several other pioneering trans and intersex athletes of their era. With dogged research and dramatic flair, Waters also tracks how International Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany’s atrocities in order to pull off the 1936 Berlin Games, ultimately leading to the IOC’s nearly century-long obsession with surveilling and cataloging gender.

This is the story of Revathi in her own words, about how she refuses to conform to society’s expectations. In her memoir, she talk about trying to find community in Southern India and becoming an advocate for other marginalized people.

De Robertis creates a collective coming-of-age story based on hundreds of hours of interviews, offering rare snapshots of ordinary life: kids growing up, navigating family issues and finding community, coming out and changing how they identify over the years, building movements and weathering the AIDS crisis, and sharing wisdom for future generations.

‘To belong here’ delves into how queer, trans, and Two-Spirit Appalachian people make sense of life in the mountains. Featuring contributors whose identities across race, gender, and socioeconomic background make for a uniquely intersectional look at the area, this collection provides a nuanced understanding of Appalachia and what it means to represent it. Themes of erasure, environmentalism, violence, kinship, racism, Indigeneity, queer love, and trans liberation course through the volume and exemplify the writers’ resilience in reconciling their complex and often contradictory connections to home.

‘Femme’ describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Building upon experiences of transformation, belonging and harm, this book offers transfeminist contributions to movements for collective liberation. “Trans Femme Futures” envisions the future through everyday actions that revolutionize all of our lives.

Spanning over four centuries, this volume brings together a wide-ranging selection of artworks and artifacts that highlight the under-recognized histories of trans and gender-nonconforming communities. Through the contributions of artists, writers, poets, activists, and scholars, this title reflects on historical erasure and imagines trans futures.

Through her explanation of central concepts and terms, informative sidebars, and brief biographies of trans pioneers, Stryker reminds readers of one crucial truth: Transgender people have always been here. In good times and bad, they’ve built supportive and expansive communities, battled for freedom, and transformed American culture and society in the process.

A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.