books about/for/written by trans folk?
>>7994398
Orlando
>>7994398
DSM-IV-TR
>>7994398
poppy z brite went ftm trans
all her books are shit tho
>>7994398
Crevel, "Are you crazy?"
>>7994431
o....kay?
>>7994400
This. My fav Woolf book
>>7994412
>implying that it's mental illness
>directing them to a source that no longer identifies it as mental illness
nice try buddy
damn bro idk I'm trans and all I can think of besides theory texts is Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, which is more about desire than it is about sex, gender, or anything related to a trans identity, but accomplishes its work on desire through playing with language and embodiment through sex, gender, the body, and its representations through the linguistic nature of the image
A really radical text when it comes to gender, sex, identity, embodiment, personhood, etc.
I also highly recommend Beatriz Preciado's book Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era. It's half critical theory text and half personal memoir of the trans author's experience taking black market testosterone. Its not perfect but its a wild wide that takes you from a detailed history of how Puerto Rico was transformed into a massive pharma lab for birth control to apocalyptic images of love at the end of the world, in a world where modern binaries like man/woman as much as nature/culture are imploding
>>7994412
kek
if you're just lookin for anything, see if you can find Susan Stryker's "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix"
she has a bunch of really neat theorizations of the transsexual (as she lived as such in the nineties) and "transgender rage" as belonging to the realm of the monstrous and the unnatural, which you often see echoed in a more straightforwardly feminist way by ppl like Braidotti, Butler, idk
there's also a very moving poem, but mostly her discussion of the natural world is what keeps me coming back.
"The affect of rage [...] originates in a recognition of the fact that the 'outsideness' of a materiality that perpetually violates the foreclosure of subjective space within a symbolic order is also necessarily 'inside' the subject as grounds for the materialization of its body and the formation of its bodily ego" etc
no one else has got trans books? not OP, but I'm curious. Now that it's summer there'll be more time to read stuff, even if its just to see if its a trans narrative worth more merit than just its identity politics.
no cool trans sci fi? I know Ancillary(sp?) Justice was kind of trans, and the whole thing was neat enough (better than some of the shit like Revelation Space or other scifi about cool dudes doin cool dude stuff I've read recently, although that captain Brannigan stuff was incredible) to have definitely imprinted images and ideas that I still sometimes return to
Even if you're not an sjw, it seems reasonable to admit that a trans perspective can provide a really compelling narrative. even if you dismiss it as a mental illness, so what? as much as I can talk shit about Lovecraft for his inspiration being founded in xenophobia and racial hatred, I also know its as much about, if not entirely or w all the rest subsequent of, what I can only imagine was unimaginable anxiety, self loathing and depression, genuine fear no matter how much other fear was misplaced, etc. Same w trans; what is it like to be at war with nature, or be told you're at war with nature? or to be assembled or require assemblage to feel actualized? or to press between the divisive lines of a mutual, divided being? or even just to live on the periphery? although narratives with just that to gain from them are usually more boring than they need to be, which I feel like most trans narratives I encounter (especially to an audience that isn’t familiar with any sort of trans identity/experience)
>>7994398
:^)
still no good trans books? I'm disappointed in you guys.
I've been genuinely curious all day since this thread first made me reflect on how few I've ever read
>>7996308
Haven't red it but the reviews and synopsis' make it sound fun:
This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ghost of Hollywood past.
>>7996598
it's called The passion of New Eve by Angela Carter.
Don't be jealous.
>>7994398
Like JoeySalad?
>>7994398
any audio book. Its basically an iphone trying to be a book.just memeing, friend :^)
>>7994412
>DSM IV
>not DSM V
Step up your game, son.
Why would you want to read about degenerates?
>>7996801
Why would you want to read about normies?
Boom!
Sphinx by Anne Garreta. It's a love story, and she never specifies the gender of the two main characters. The book doesn't specifically have any trans characters in it, but shows how gender is a social construct that isn't necessary for love to flourish.
The prose is tight. It gets a little melodramatic in the last 3rd. If you can read french, definitely go for the original text.
>>7996806
Reading (non-fiction) about normies is essential to understanding them and thus being able to mainpulate/using them efficiently. Social engineering is a thing, remember? Propaganda? Marketing? The list could go on.
>>7994712
>cool trans sci-fi
I´m baffled
>>7994398
I haven´t read about this subject before but there might be some that might be interesting.
Man Alive; SHOW TRANS; Redefining Realness; Stuck in the Middle with You; A Love Story Across Genders;
>>7996818
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_transsexualism
>biology isn´t real hur durrr
>love isn´t chemicals hueer
>brains can´t be neurologically defect hurrrddruurr social construct
