Trans Care is a short, smart, sunny, and insightful meditation on how trans people care for one another. Connecting an almost dizzying array of everyday trans life, art, and thought into this compact book, Malatino considers how, in the face of antagonism and beyond-burnout, “increasingly, we’ve turned to each other.” It’s a gift to read along with his questions and ideas in this book, where “archival specters” share pages with “obvi.”
Trans Care, by Hil Malatino. Published by the University of Minnesota Press. Trans Care is a finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature; the winner will be announced on May 12.