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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,…

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…

Serena Jara is a photographer who works out of New York City, and is a trans woman whose work primarily focuses around women of trans experience. One specific woman in whom Jara has come to see as a mother figure, Cecilia Gentili is the…

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…

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…

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…

Real Man Adventures is an experimental memoir written by T Cooper, though the back cover declares “Real Man Adventures is not a memoir. It’s an adventure story – and one packed with all the requisite dark alleys, disguises, leading ladies, and plot…

Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns is the first book by genderqueer, spoken word poet Andrea Gibson, originally published in 2006 by Write Bloody Publishing. This book is as diverse in topics as the political climate into which it was produced. Through…

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…