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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

Nancy is a seasonal, weekly podcast that started in April 2017 and is ongoing. It is co-hosted and co-managed/edited by Kathy Tu and Tobin Low, and is produced by Matt Collette. All three of these main production team members identify as queer,…