7 must-read theory books like Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by Hil Malatino

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Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• gender
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

Similar categories in Lucy Sante's I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• nonfiction
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• feminism
• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• 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

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• gender
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• gender and sexuality
• queer

"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• gender
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• theory
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• lgbt
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

Similar categories in Chelsea Manning's README.txt book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• politics
• nonfiction
• queer

"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."

-Chelsea Manning, README.txt

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• gender and sexuality
• queer

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• politics
• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

Similar categories in C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• politics
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

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

"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

Similar categories in Thomas Grattan's In Tongues book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Cecilia Gentili's Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

Similar categories in Casey Plett's On Community (Field Notes, #8) book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Jasbir K. Puar's The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise) book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• theory
• feminism
• politics
• academic
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad book and Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• politics
• gender
• academic
• nonfiction
• gender and sexuality
• queer