10 Top gender books like Trans Care by Hil Malatino

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Trans Care

By: Hil Malatino

4.37

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How …

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1. Gender Failure

By: Rae Spoon , Ivan E. Coyote

4.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Being a girl was something that never really happened for me."—Rae Spoon Ivan E. Coyote and Rae… read more

Similar categories in Rae Spoon's Gender Failure book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"If being a man is something that required a person to tick off a bunch of boxes, not many people would make it through."

-Rae Spoon, Gender Failure

"The thing about failing as a girl is that I did want to succeed. I wanted to be liked and accepted like anyone, but it wasn't like learning how to play the guitar or to roller-blade. It was something…"

-Rae Spoon, Gender Failure

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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

3. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

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4. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more

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5. Transgender History

By: Susan Stryker

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more

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6. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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7. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

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8. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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9. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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10. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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11. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. Females

By: Andrea Long Chu

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Long Chu's Females book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

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13. Raving

By: McKenzie Wark

3.81

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

What is an art of life for what feels like the end of a world? In Raving McKenzie Wark takes reader… read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Raving book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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14. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

By: C. Riley Snorton

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more

Similar categories in C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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16. There Are Trans People Here

By: H. Melt

4.19

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

There are trans people here in the past, the present, and the future. H. Melt's writing centers the… read more

Similar categories in H. Melt's There Are Trans People Here book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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17. Trans Care

By: Hil Malatino

4.37

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How … read more

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Trans Care book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • politics
  • gender
  • academic
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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18. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • queer lit
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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19. Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

By: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

4.65

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and acti… read more

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

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20. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • queer lit
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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21. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK)

By: Cameron Awkward-Rich

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Awkward-Rich's The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK) book and Hil Malatino's Trans Care

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • gender
  • academic
  • nonfiction
  • queer

7 must-read essays books like Trans Care by Hil Malatino

Transform Your Habits

Gender Failure

Rae Spoon , Ivan E. Coyote

4.32

Transform Your Habits

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

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16 must-read nonfiction books like Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado

Transform Your Habits

King Kong théorie

Virginie Despentes

4.01

Transform Your Habits

The Queer Art of Failure

J. Jack Halberstam

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Straight Mind: And Other Essays

Monique Wittig

4.12

Transform Your Habits

La piedra de la locura

Benjamín Labatut

3.48

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