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Redefining Realness is a memoir written by Janet Mock about her life and her shaping of her own identity as a multiracial trans woman. Mock shares with the reader intimate details from her own upbringing, exploring what it means to be a woman through…

Zenaida Peterson is a spoken word poet and community organizer based out of Boston. She has represented Simmons College at the College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) both in 2015 as a performer and in 2017 as the team’s coach. She is the…

A finalist for the 2014 Lambda Award in LGBT Anthology, Troubling the Line is widely recognized as the first-ever collection of poetry by trans and genderqueer writers. The anthology includes 55 poets from diverse backgrounds. Each poet is afforded…

“Kumu Hina” is a documentary film that tells the story of Hina Wong-Kalu, a native Hawaiian mahu, or third gender person. This documentary came out in 2014 and was co-directed by Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, two cis white Americans. While the directors…

Chella Man is a nineteen-year-old artist and YouTuber who has risen to popularity on Instagram, where he has over twenty thousand followers. He describes his gender as being “genderqueer mentally, and FTM physically”, and he is currently taking…

This video of Andrea Jenkins interviewing Phillipe Cunningham is one entry in the Transgender Oral History Project, an initiative of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota. The project, which comprises…

Alok Vaid-Menon is a non-binary, Indian-American performer, activist, and model who grew up in Texas, and now travels throughout many cities and countries worldwide to perform and lead workshops. They published “The Biography of Pink” to their…