Small Trans Library Spreadsheets

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
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2	Pink =	Trans Literature
3	White =	LGBT Literature
4	Blue =	Journal Subscription
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6	The library doesn't have a permanent location so the books are stored at our homes. To borrow a book email glasgow@smalltranslibrary.com, if you live in Glasgow we can arrange a drop off or you can come pick it up, if you live outwith Glasgow we can post it!
7	Author	Book Title	Year of Pub	Publisher	Available	Category	Copies	Section	Cross Reference / Notes	Donated
8	ed. Nickodemus, Lauren & Desmond, Ellen	The Bi-ble	2017	Monstrous Regiment	N	Anthology	1	B
9	ed. Nickodemus, Lauren & Desmond, Ellen	The Bi-ble: New Testimonies - Vol.2	2019	Monstrous Regiment	Y	Anthology	1	B	Collection of essays on bisexuality
10	Halperin, David	How to Be Gay	2012	Harvard University Press	Y	Study	1	G	An examination of gayness as a way of being, that gay men learn from one another to become who they are.
11	Martin, Dawn Lundy	Life in a Box is a Pretty Life			N	Poetry		L
12	Lorde, Audre	The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House	2018	Penguin Modern	Y	Essays	1	L	A collection of essays and speeches from the seminal Black Lesbian poet Audre Lorde
13	Abbot, Steve	View Askew	1989	Androgyne Books	Y	Essays	1	LGB	Art criticism focused on the San Francisco in the 80's.
14	Rowe, Michael (ed)	Queer Fear II	2002	Arsenal Pulp Press	Y	Horror anthology	1	LGB	collection of gay horror stories, focusing mostly on the city, and some on small towns
15	White, Edmund	The Burning Library			N	Essays		LGB
16	Killian, Kevin	Stage Fright: Selected Plays			N	Play		LGB
17	Lawson, Wendy	Sex, Sexuality and the Autism Spectrum	2005	Jessica Kingsley	Y	Theory	1	LGB	Study on autism and sex. Quite outdated but written by someone with autism.
18	Ackroyd, Peter	Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag	1979	Thames and Hudson	Y	Study	1	LGBT	History of 'transvestism' written by an editor of The Spectator, intrestingly enough. I haven't read it yet but it looks quite thorough and definitely has a lot of great pictures. +
19	Jay, Karla	Out of the Closets			N	Anthology		LGBT	will interest students of gay liberation
20	Gimpelevich, Calvin	Invasions	2018	Instar Books	Y	Short Stories	1	LGBT	Collection of wild and often surreal short stories. Wicked sci-fi story ('Rent, Don't Sell') in Meanwhile, Elsewhere also features here +
21	Chen, Mel Y.	Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect	2012	Duke University Press	Y	Study	1	LGBT	Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal.
22	Ryan, Hugh	When Brooklyn Was Queer	2019	St Martin's Griffin	Y	History	1	LGBT	The story of Brooklyn's forgotten LGBT history since the 1850s.
23	Dodge, Harry	My Meteorite or, Without The Random There Can Be No New Thing	2020	Harvill Secker	Y	Autobiography	1	LGBT	Autobiographical exploration of questions of love, bonding, and how we are all shaped by forces we cannot know through the purchase of a metorite on ebay.
24	Woolf, Virginia	Orlando	1928	Vintage	Y	Fiction	1	LGBT	Book about a nobleman who lives for 4 centuries and magically turns into a woman part way though. Not generally considered a trans text but certainly able to be read in such a way. Explores the experience of men and women living in society
25	Smith, Ali	How To Be Both	2014	Hamish Hamilton	Y	Fiction	1	LGBT	A novel about arts versatility. It features 2 narratives that can be read in either order, one from the perspective of a disembodied work of art, the other a teenage girl in cambridge.
26	Melton, Abigail & Cooper, Lilith	Gears for Queers	2020	Sandstone	Y	Travelogue	1	LGBT	Travelogue of a cycle tour written by a queer couple.
27	Danforth, M. Emily	The Miseducation of Cameron Post	2012	Penguin	Y	Fiction	1	LGBT
28	Alabanza, Travis & Frankland, Emma & Scottee & Thompson, Selina	The Outsiders Handbook	2018	LADA	Y	Advice	10	LGBT
29	Plummer, Rachel	Wain: LGBT Reimaginings of Scottish Folklore	2019	Emma Press	Y	Poetry	1	LGBT	Poetic reimaginings of Scottish folklore, aimed at LGBT teens. Also has gourgeous illustrations by Helene Boppert
30	El-Mohtar, Amal &Max Gladstone	This Is How You Lose the Time War	2019	Jo Fletcher Books	Y	Novel	1	LGBT	Kind of science fiction romance novel told through letters. Focuses on two rival agents from different warring factions
31	Yang, Neon	The Black Tides of Heaven	2017	Tom Doherty Associates	Y	Fantasy	1	LGBT	Fantasy novel about 2 twins sold into a monestary, before growing apart as a rebellion grow in the empire they live in.
32	Whitehead, Joshua	Jonny Appleseed	2018	Arsenal Pulp	Y	Novel	1	LGBT	Novel about an indegnous two spirit person whos left his reservation but must retrun home in a week for his stepfathers funeral.
33	Buckley, Toby (ed)	Bombinate Vol 4	2018	Self-published	N	Zine	1	T
34	Dale, Laura Kate	Uncomfortable Labels - My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman	2019	Jessica Kingsley	Y	Memoir	1	T	Memoir from a gay, trans, austistic woman
35	Daniels, April	Sovereign (Nemesis, Book Two)	2017	Diversion Publishing	Y	Young Adult	1	T	Second book in April Daniels' YA series about a trans girl superhero.
36	Long Chu, Andrea	Females	2019	Verso	Y	Theory	1	T	Autotheoretical exploration of the idea that 'everyone is female and everyone hates it'. Chu's use of the word 'female' means the way the self is hollowed out to make way for the desires of another. Takes basically a neo-lacanian approach by way of Valerie Solanas and ends up exploring porn, incels, art, her own masterbation habits and force femme fantasies in great detail. Some have found the book quite objectionable, revealing Chu's internalised transphobia and mysogyny. Others see it as a wild, satirical flirt with attitudes and ideas that we in the trans community have been reluctant to approach.
37	Sullivan, Lou	We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan	2019	Nightboat Books	N	Memoir	1	T	selected from Lou's journals that he kept all his life and intended to publish before his death, this book is hilarious and heartbreaking and reads like good, boy thirsty tweets. it deals well with all the uncertainty of transness, and the long periods of doubt, and the experience of being recloseted by those who supposedly love you.
38	Waidner, Isabel	We Are Made of Diamond Stuff	2019	Dostoyevsky Wannabe	Y	Novel	2	T	I haven’t read this yet, but Waidner is non binary and writes about working class queerness, utilizing surrealism to discuss current political landscapes, romance and labour. It’s published by a radical socialist press I really like called Dostoyevsky Wannabe, who don’t make a return on their sales and choose predominantly voices from the margins.	donated by Isabel Waidner (thank u!)
39	Spott, Verity	Prayers, Manifestos, Bravery	2018	Pilot Press	Y	Anthology	1	T	Collection of Spott Verity's work, including the attempted trans manifestos.
40	Spott, Verity	Trans* Manifestos	2016	Shit Valley	Y	Zine	1	T	Collection of attempted trans manifestos.
41	Smith, Danez	Don't Call Us Dead	2017	Chatto & Windus	Y	Poetry	1	T	Smith is genderqueer and their poetry deals with themes of racism, gender, queerness and HIV. I think this book is really essential and beautiful and was nominated for the National Book Award, and I’m fairly sure they are the only genderqueer person and one of few POC to be nominated for it. There are some amazing videos of them reading their work on youtube that we could share maybe in future. Link to their poem, “alternate names for black boys” - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/56843/alternate-names-for-black-boys
42	Snorton, C. Riley	Black on Both Sides - A Racial History of Trans Identity			N	Theory		T
43	Spade, Dean	Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law			N	Theory		T
44	Heinemann, Caspar	Novelty Theory	2019	The 87 Press	Y	Poetry	1	T	Caspar Heinemann is a trans man and has a poem I love called “if you think pigeons are too common to be beautiful don’t call yourself a communist.” I haven’t read all of this collection but have read several poems and really like the way they combine anarchism, love, and Grotesque Things.
45	Dodd, Jay	The Black Condition Ft. Narcissus			N	Poetry		T
46	edwards, kari	Succubus in My Pocket			N	Poetry		T
47	Feinberg, Leslie	Transgender Warriors	1996	Beacon Press	Y	Study	1	T	A part memoir, part history of trans people through the ages. told very frankly and with a lot of heart, loads of photos and illustrations. not the most accurate historical text in the world but very important !
48	Allen, Mariette	Transformations			N	Study		T
49	Baez-Bendorf, Oliver	The Spectral Wilderness	2015	Kent State University Press	Y	Poetry	2	T	Baez-Bendorf’s poetry discusses his transition with incredible tenderness and often humour. The book has almost a spoken word feel at points while using images of plant life, ancientness and transformation in the natural world in a very sensitive way. I found it extremely comforting. Quote: "Here’s a brachiopod, here’s me twirling in a gauzy blue dress in the afternoon sun. Trace these fossils with your tongue and place them in my hands, which will never be any larger. Lay your ear against an iceberg while there’s time and sing to me its trickle.”
50	Baez-Bendorf, Oliver	The Advantages of Being Evergreen			N	Poetry		T
51	Binaohan, B.	Decolonizing Trans/Gender 101	2012	Biyuti Publishing	Y	Essays	1	T	Critique of mainstream white centric gender theory. Short and aimed at people of colour/ indegenous people to help understand how gender has been impacted by whiteness/colonialism. Written in a non-academic style which can often end up being quite difficult to understand as it bypasses conventional grammer norms. Some of the points made can seem quite controversial and outdated.
52	Clare, Eli	Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and liberation	2015	Duke University Press	Y	Theory	1	T	Essays about disability politics from a queer, intersectional perspective.
53	Clare, Eli	Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure	2017	Duke University Press	Y	Study	1	T	Essays about disability, focusing on the concept of the cure.
54	Beauchamp, Toby	Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and US Surveillance Practices	2019	Duke University Press	Y	Study	1	T	A book exploring the central position of surveillance in trans lives. Through exploring a range of issues, it shows how disciplinary power is used to create conformist citizens.
55	Pearce, Ruth	Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility	2018	Policy Press	Y	Study	1	T	Detailed study of the the key challenges and debates in UK trans healthcare using patient voices, autobiography & social theory. Incredibly well written and inightful.
56	Prosser, Jay	Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality	1998	Columbia University Press	Y	Study	1	T	An exploration of gender's materiality in the body through careful critique of Queer Theory and examination of trans autobiography and canonical trans texts, The Well of Lonliness and Stone Butch Blues.
57	Preciado, Paul B.	Testo Junkie : Sex, Drugs and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era	2013	Feminist Press	Y	Theory	1	T	Auto-theoretical account taking testosterone. Takes off from Foucoult & Butler and explores the intersections of gender, pharmaceuticals, pornography and late capitalism.
58	Stryker, Susan	Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution (Revised Edition)	2017	Seal Press	Y	History	1	T	Accesible guide to american Trans history, in terms of activism, challenges, culture, society. Includes a lot of stuff that is relevant for people in the UK and Ireland due to american culutral hegemony.
59	Roche, Juno	Gender Explorers	2020	Jessica Kingsley	Y	Interviews	1	T	Collection of interviews with young trans people and often their parents. Really interesting to see the perspectives of these young people who've grown up in a world far less resistent to them being themselves than we have, as well as their parents who are mostly supportive.
60	Roche, Juno	Trans Power	2020	Jessica Kingsley	Y	Interviews	1	T	Collection of interviews with people like Travis Alabanza, Kate Bornstein, Josephine Jones, Glamrou, and many more, as well as writing from Juno Roche. Shows the diversity of trans experiences, particularly focusing on those outside the typically presented binary model. I read this at a time when I was really struggling with feeling like I wasn't doing transness in the right way, like I wasn't and couldn't conform in a way that was acceptable, and this book basically turned that mindset around completely, I can't recommend it enough.
61	Roche, Juno	Queer Sex	2018	Jessica Kingsley	Y	Interviews	2	T	Collection of interviews exploring sex, intimacy, desire and dating from a trans/non-binary perspective.
62	Serano, Julia	Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity	2007	Seal Press	Y	Theory	1	T	Foundational trans femininst work, often referenced frequently by other trans feminist writers. Focus on cultural hatred of feminity and how that’s directed at trans women. Popularised the terms cissexism and trans-misogyny
63	Thom, Kai Cheng	I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes From The End of The World	2019	Arsenal Pulp	Y	Essays	1	T	Essays about how social justive movements might approach questions of violence, complicity, family, vengeance and forgiveness. Seekes to find nuance in times of polarisation.
64	Thom, Kai Cheng	Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir	2016	Metonymy Press	Y	Young Adult	1	T	A coming of age novel about a young asian trans woman who runs away from home and eventually forms a kind of vigilante gang to help fight transphobes and violent johns
65	Arndt, Jess	Large Animals	2017	Cipher Press	Y	Short Stories	1	T	Collection of 12 short stories based around the idea of what it means to have a body through reality bending narratives
66	Jacques, Juliet	Trans: A Memoir	2016	Verso	Y	Autobiography	1	T	Autobiography that self consciously deconstructs the genre of trans autobiography while exploring the mundane reality of the trans experience
67	Plett, Casey	Little Fish	2018	Arsenal Pulp	Y	Fiction	1	T	A novel about a Canadian trans woman who discovers her mennonite grandfather might have been trans.
68	Hall, Radclyffe	The Well of Lonliness	1928	Penguin	Y	Fiction	1	T	Novel that for years was the best known British lesbian novel, despite the fact that the protagonist explicitly identifies as a man. Written at a time when queer people were categorised as "inverts", without a solid distinction between gays & lesbians and those we would now call trans people. Despite being way ahead in terms of gender and sexual politics it is very much a novel of its time written by a member of the aristocracy with all the paternalistic class and racial assumptions you would expect. If you can get past that (and how depressing it is) then I definitely recommend it.
69	Cuboniks, Laboria	The Xenofeminist Manifesto	2018	Verse	Y	Manifesto	1	T	An attempt to begin articulating a new kind of feminism, embracing alienation and technology for their emancipatory potentials.
70	Crewe, Jamie	Glaire	2017	Ma Biblithèque	Y	Play	1	T	Glaire is a text from Jamie Crewe’s performance Potash Lesson (2016), and a new drawing, originally presented in a work aligning Victorian treatments of hysterical women with contemporary expressions of transgender femininity. Glaire contains two theatrical scenes from Une leçon à la Salpêtrière (1908), written by André de Lorde for the Grand Guignol theatre, Paris. A printed edition of the play, which describes a gory scenario of disease, abuse, and revenge in the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, has been digitally scanned through OCR (optical character recognition), then translated using Google Translate. Words are fractured through the automatic peculiarities of OCR, and distorted through automatic translation from French to English. Phrasing, form, and gender are warped. Claire, the injured and vengeful young woman of de Lorde’s play, becomes a textual force with a constantly shifting name, misgendered, belittled, and pitied by doctors (and stage directions) who make no more sense than she.
71	Alabanza, Travis	Burgerz	2018	Oberon	Y	Play	1	T
72	Lamb, Teddy	Since U Been Gone	2020	Oberon	Y	Play	1	T
73	Rubin, Henry	Self-Made Men	2013	Vanderbilt University Press	Y	Theory	1	T	Rubin uses the life experience of trans men alongside historical documents and theory to understand what it is to be a trans man. The analysis and experiences he draws out point away from post-modern understandings of gender generally found in queer studies, these men are unapolagetic essentialists.
74	Jorgenson, Christine	A Personal Autobiography	1967	Paul S. Erickson	Y	Memoir	1	T	Christine Jorgensen was the first ever trans celebrity, internationally known as th GI who turned into a blonde bombshell. While she was reported as being the first person to have a 'sex change operation' this wasn't true, nonetheless, her story set the tone for how trans people would be talked about for years and for many people she was the first trans person they had ever heard of. This book is a bit sanitised but interesting nonetheless. It also features an introduction from Dr Harry Benjamin who also wrote The Transsexual Phenomenon and is considered the father of modern HRT.
75	ed. Avery, Madison Tara & Thornton, Jeanne	We're Still Here: An All Trans Comics Anthology	2018	Stacked Deck Press	Y	Comics	1	T	Collection of comics on the trans experience. Features lots and lots of writers, believed to be the first collection of its kind.
76	Raha, Nat	Of Sirens, Body & Faultlines	2018	Boiler House	Y	Poetry	1	T
77	Charles, Jos	feeld	2018	Milkweed Editions	Y	Poetry	1	T	Trans poetry using a kind of neo-medieval type of english.
78	ed. Tolbert, TC & Peterson, Trace	Troubling The Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics	2013	Nightboat Books	Y	Poetry	1	T	A collection of work from 55 poets. This book is massive and perfect if you want to be introduced to a diverse range of writers.
79	Various	The Gender Garden	2016	LGBT Health and Wellbeing	Y	Anthology	1	T	A collection of writing from Scottish trans, non-binary & intersex voices. Features both poetry and prose.
80	Hidden Ink Child	Gay Trans Boy Things vol. 1	2017	Zine	Y	Zine	1	T
81	Hidden Ink Child	Gay Trans Boy Things vol. 2: People Being Silly About Gender	2018	Zine	Y	Zine	1	T
82	Hidden Ink Child	Gay Trans Boy Things vol. 3: Gendered Illness Issue	2019	Zine	Y	Zine	1	T
83	Uziell, Laurel	Instant Cop Death	2017	Shit Valley	Y	Poetry	1	T
84	Various	Zarf #14	2020	Zine	Y	Poetry	2	T	Poetry anthology zine
85	Korneliussen, Niviaq	Crimson	2014	Virago	Y	Novel	1	T	A novel about 5 friends in Greenland
86	Ortberg, Daniel Mallory	Something That May Shock and Discredit You	2020	Atria	Y	Essays	1	T	Set of genre bending essays about culture, gender, religion, relationships and more
87	ed. Andrea Abi-Karam & Kay Gabriel	We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Poetics	2020	Nightboat Books	Y	Poetry	1	T	Collection of radical trans poetry, very thick book with lots and lots of writers including Harry Josephine Giles who is Scottish and based in Edinburgh.
88	Peters, Torrey	Detransition, Baby	2021	Serpents Tail	N	Novel	2	T	A novel about a detransitioning, love, sex, divorce, pain, and womanhood. Incredibly good. Every trans woman I know whos read it has felt totally seen with this, but not in a shallow way thats simple representation and nothing more. It goes very deep into the psyche of these characters, doesn't shrink at showing the dark bits.
89	Glück, Robert	Margery Kempe	1994	New York Review of Books	Y	Fiction	1
90	Schulman, Sarah	Conflict Is Not Abuse	2019	Arsenal Pulp	Y	Theory	1
91	Okorafor, Nnedi	Akata Witch	2011	Speak	Y	Fantasy	1
92	Burns, Eleanor	Wolves of Dacia	2018	Double Dragon	Y	Fantasy	1
93	Burns, Eleanor	Gloriana's Masque	2020	Self-Published	Y	Fantasy	1
94	Pollack, Rachel	Unquenchable Fire	1988	Gollancz	Y	Fantasy	1
95	Smith, Molly & Mac, Juno	Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers Rights	2018	Verso	Y	Study	1		Examination of the specific ways the criminalisation of sex work makes people unsafe. Incredibly well written and argued, and tells you basically everything you need to know. Vital book to read right now specifically as the Scottish Government is undertaking a consultation on sex work law with the intention of introducing the nordic model.
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