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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…

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…

Originally published in 2011, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex is an anthology of interviews, stories, essays, and manuals compiled and edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith. The second and expanded edition was…

Ely Shipley is a trans author and activist. He worked at CUNY in NYC and taught as an assistant professor of English at Baruch College, where he taught courses on gay and lesbian literature, poetry, and identity writing. He is currently a professor…

In Shigeyuki Kihara’s “Ulugali’i Samoa: Samoan Couple” photograph, Kihara masterfully interrogates Western conceptions of gender, Polynesia, race, and colonialism in one fell swoop. Much of the work the photograph relies on juxtaposition and irony,…

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…

"The Humiliating Practice of Sex-Testing Female Athletes," written by Ruth Padawer, was published by the New York Times Magazine on June 28, 2016. Ruth Padawer is, notably, a cis woman. However, the article focuses largely on an interview with Dutee…

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…

Ingrid Matison identifies as a white, nonbinary artist who currently resides in Providence. They grew up in a working class family in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Ingrid is currently a student at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where their primary…

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…