Transgender Day of Remembrance
Trans people have always existed. Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20th. This is a day to mark the lives lost to violence in the transgender community. Here are some books that capture the history, complexity, and dynamism of the trans experience. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Created November 2024)
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A Million Quiet Revolutions
Two seventeen-year-old trans boys in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, struggling to understand themselves and their love for each other, are inspired by an online story about trans soldiers who fell in love during the American Revolution.
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Tar Hollow Trans
RaIn Tar Hollow Trans, Stacy Jane Grover explores her transgender experience through common Appalachian cultural traditions. She began to reflect on her memories and discovered that group identities like Appalachian and transgender are linked by more than just the stinging brand of social otherness. Grover investigates the ways the labels of transgender and Appalachian have been created and understood and reckons with the ways the ever-becoming transgender self, like a stigmatized region, can find new spaces of growth.
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Lucy, Uncensored
A road trip through gender identity, self-expression, and the thorny process of figuring out where you fit after high school as an out-and-proud transgender teen.
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Before We Were Trans
This global history of gender nonconformity examines the stories of people from antiquity to the present who defied categorization and looks to the past to uncover new possibilities for possible trans futures.
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The Prospects
Gene Ionescu, a gay trans man in the minors with the Beaverton Beavers, is a solid shortstop, but he's no one's idea of a major league prospect. He's just happy to be here. But his plans go awry when Luis Estrada -- Gene's rival since their college days -- gets traded to his team and takes Gene's position. After Gene's coach forces him over to second base, he and Luis can't manage a civil conversation or a competent play. But when Gene finds Luis having a panic attack, he offers to start extra practices together. As they grow closer and the Beavers gain playoff traction, Gene's dream of playing in the majors becomes a threat to his team's success - as well as his burgeoning relationship.
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Am I Trans Enough?
Am I Trans Enough? The answer is undoubtably yes. You are. Alo Johnston has been where you are. From watching every transition story on YouTube and navigating online message boards for answers to finally starting testosterone and transitioning himself, he now walks alongside you every step of the way to guide you towards acceptance of who you truly are. (Publisher)
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My Life in Transition
This follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer illustrates six months of the author’s life as an out trans woman—about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak.
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Love & Other Disasters
While competing on a popular cooking show, Dahlia Woodson stirs up trouble when she gets involved with a nonbinary contestant, and as their relationship heats up both in and out of the kitchen, she wonders if they have the right ingredients for a happily ever after.
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The Free People's Village
Maddie is rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called “The Lab” in Houston’s Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins “Save the Eighth,” a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. When police respond to Save the Eighth protests with violence, the Lab becomes the epicenter of “The Free People’s Village”—an occupation that promises to be the birthplace of an anti-capitalist revolution. But the Village is beset on all sides—by infighting, police brutality, corporate-owned media, and rising ecofascism.
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The Sapling Cage
Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them. There’s only one problem: all witches are women, and she was born a boy. When the coven comes to claim her best friend, Lorel disguises herself in a dress and joins in her friend’s place, leaving home and her old self behind.
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