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“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…

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…

Imogen Binnie’s 2013 novel, Nevada, is a dark comedy that follows Maria Griffiths, a 29 year old transwoman living in New York who begrudgingly navigates the impending doom of her relationship, unemployment, identity politics and queerness. Binnie…

Freakboy is a novel written in verse meant to engage with young adult readers. The format works to highlight the differences between the three characters as well as to convey tone and inner thought processes. For example, at times when Brendan’s…

The Crying Game is a thriller, directed and written by Neil Jordan, that came out in 1992. It was nominated for more than 50 film awards, winning Best British Film in the BAFTA awards, Best Screenplay in the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, and…

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…

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…

Tangerine is an indie film directed by Sean Baker. The film, shot on several iPhone 5Ss, centers around two black trans women sex workers, Sin-Dee and Alexandra, played by trans actors Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor respectively. While…

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…

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,…