Summary: "The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics includes 29 creators' tales of self-love and affirmation that detail their experiences with gender and identity. Originally published as a successful kickstarter campaign, this expanded edition includes comics by Dana Simpson (bestselling author of Phoebe and Her Unicorn), Aidyn Huynh (Snailords), Sage Coffey, Kyla Aiko, Coco Ouwerkerk, and many others....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 306.76 OUTSante, Lucy
Summary: "For a long time, Lucy Sante felt unsure of her place. Born in Belgium, the only child of conservative working-class Catholic parents who transplanted their little family to the United States, she felt at home only when she moved to New York City in the early 1970s and found her people among a band of fellow bohemians. Some would die young, to drugs and AIDS, and some would become jarringly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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Summary: "A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books, Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRADY-DAVIS, PRECIOUS BRAAlabanza, Travis
Summary: "A memoir exploring what it means to live outside the normative boundaries imposed by society, from an award-winning trans writer and performer. In None of the Above: Reflections on Life beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrases-some deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALABANZA, TRAVIS ALAWright, iO Tillett
Summary: "The author describes her search for an authentic sense of self and gender identity in a coming of age biography set in the 1980s and 1990s urban bohemia of New York's Lower East Side, where punk rock, poverty and heroin met art and glamour,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, iO TILLETT WRIMaines, Nicole
Summary: "Nicole Maines knows a little something about a "happily-ever-after." Not just because she's a self-professed expert in the Disney princess canon (Ariel's flowing orange hair? ICONIC). But also, she's lived it. After coming out at the age of three, her family had not only come to terms with her transgender identity and accepted her, but they won a landmark court case in the Maine Supreme Court....
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2024
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Summary: "Pass with Care is a testament to trans resilience, queer joy, and the power of finding freedom and adventure within a community of your own creation. Transgender writer, artist, and activist Cooper Lee Bombardier shifts effortlessly between lyrical essays, poetry, and narrative nonfiction as his own landscape changes over the course of two decades. From working-class New England to the queer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dottir Press 2020
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Summary: "A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHRAYA, VIVEK SHRBelovitch, Brian
Summary: In Trans Figured, Brian Belovitch shares his true story of life as a gender outlier and his dramatic journey through the jungle of gender identity. Brian has the rare distinction of coming out three times: first as a queer teenager; second as a glamorous transgender woman named Tish, and later, Natalia Gervais; and finally as an HIV-positive gay man surviving the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELOVITCH, BRIAN BELRadclyffe, Oliver
Summary: "A textured, sharply written memoir about coming of age in the fourth decade of one's life and embracing one's truest self in a world that demands gender fit in neat boxes. From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed life. As the daughter of two well-to-do British parents and the wife of a successful man from an equally privileged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roxane Gay Books 2024
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Summary: "Internet creator and activist Jackson Bird demystifies the transgender experience by sharing his own story, while debunking trans history milestones and educating readers with Transgender 101 facts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BIRD, JACKSON BIRGentili, Cecilia
Summary: "A rich and moving epistolary memoir about transgender childhood, sexual trauma, motherhood, and a young queer life in 1970s Argentina. In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist's daughter, her father's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: LittlePuss Press LLC 2022
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GENTILI, CECILIA GENGrimm, Gavin
Summary: When you're a kid like Gavin Grimm, you know yourself best. And Gavin knew that he was a boy -- even if others saw him as a girl. But when his school took away his right to something as simple as using the boys' restroom, Gavin knew he had a big decision to make. Because there are always more choices than the ones others give you. Gavin chose to correct others when they got his pronouns wrong....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022