Fantastic New Fairy Tale Stars a Transgender Princess

“Classic fairy tales like ​Cinderella ​and ​Snow White​ tell the stories of young women who overcome obstacles to live a happy life. (We take issue with the happily ever after having to involve a guy, but they weren’t written in 2015, so.) Still, for young transgender girls, it can be discouraging to see a life you want, but fear you can’t have.

A revolutionary new children’s book called ​The Royal Heart ​ aims to totally change that. This fairytale is the first in a series of children’s books about LGBTQ characters, staring a little transgender princess named Lyric, who is struggling to be the prince her parents expect her to be. “

ravefromthegrave:

fuckyeahlesbianliterature:

[image description: three screencaps from the site titled “All Our Worlds: Diverse Fantastic Fiction”. The first screencap shows the search terms, with an options for “Any of the selected” and “All of the selected”, then the tags gay, bisexual, transgender, genderqueer, noneuropean, multiple culture, disability, pronouns, lesbian, asexual, nonbinary, race, queered culture, all-female, poly, and class. There is a drop down bar for date, and check boxes for Books, Anthologies, and Comics. 

The next screencap shows a sample results page, bringing up Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor and Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, both with covers, summaries, the reason it was added to the database (Akata Witch’s reads “Presents a secret magic world in a noneuropean setting with rules very different from a lot of other works. Disability is addressed many times—in this world, having a physical disability means your magic will be stronger to compensate, resulting in special skills), tags, and publication date.

Last is the screencap of the resources page, subtitled List and Websites, Awards, and Publishers]

dragonsigma:

The Site: All Our Worlds

Here’s the project I’ve been working on: a searchable index of diverse SF/F.

521 books so far, and I’m still adding more! There’s a page to suggest something if I don’t have it. (hint- I’m very short on comics at the moment!)

(Oberlin College Winter Term 2015)

AMAZING SITE!!!

i only read sci-fi, fantasy and paranormal stuff so i seldomly actually read anything about lesbians and HERE IS A WHOLE GODDAMNED SITE DEDICATED TO FINDING BOOKS IN MY GENRES ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE ME i’m so happy i’m actually sitting straight instead of hunched over

neutrois:

“Trans Bodies Trans Selves” now available for purchase through Amazon Smiles, where you can choose to donate a portion to a charity (such as Gender Diversity). 

I just held the book in my hands and it is heavy, loaded with excellent information written by the transgender community to educate for years to come.

freelgbtqpia:

In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today’s transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being.

In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation’s trans and genderqueer forward thinkers — new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world’s most respected mainstream news sources. Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.

[mobi]

Discover Why Wanting in Arabic Is This Year's Best Transgender Fiction

transitiontransmission:

Poet and scholar Trish Salah’s new book, Wanting in Arabic, justwon the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction. Salah’s win is an accomplishment representative of her career, which she’s spent, in part, showing readers the critical importance of transgender literature.

“So often trans* people’s work is read as a symptom of our identity rather than as creative and critical writing that may arise from our experiences, oppression, and culture, but which is not reducible to it,” Salah recently told The Manitoban.

A Lebanese-Canadian professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of Winnipeg, Salah has focused her research on the emergence of transgender and transsexual minority literatures as well as feminism, decolonization, sex work, and transnational sexualities. Most recently, she organized Writing Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures, a groundbreaking conference dedicated to trans literature.

In addition to Wanting in Arabic, Salah has published numerous scholarly articles, sits on the editorial board of Transgender Studies Quarterly, and has just released her second book, Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1 (Roof Books).

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queerbookclub:

topsidepress:

A Safe Girl To Love, stories by Casey Plett. Just announced! The first US event will be on June 3rd at Bluestockings Bookstore in NYC. Complete details on the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1422023241400539/

Special guest authors Imogen Binnie and Trish Salah will be joining Casey Plett at this reading!

A summary of A Safe Girl To Love via goodreads:

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn, featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love.

These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but never will it be predictable.

nonbinaryparenting:

nombinary:

dangerdot:

#WeNeedDiverseBooks because WE are not singular.

MEET POLKADOT ♥
i am buying this book for EVERYONE for the holidays esp family

This is a really wonderful book in which a nonbinary child tells you exactly who they are - i cried the first time reading this. I can’t wait to get a few more copies to share.

malindalo:

YA books about LGBT characters of color

Find out more about these books at malindalo.com

Trans Bodies, Trans Selves Aims to Educate the Trans Masses

A new book, five years in the making, hopes to provide one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on the complex and often misunderstood issues affecting trans individuals.