Recommended Reading: Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
Detransition, Baby is a hilarious, vulnerable, gut-wrenching ride through the messy emotional terrain of trans and queer kin-making. Following the interwoven lives of three women—two trans, one cis—navigating womanhood, sex, pregnancy, and the slow approach
Recommended Reading: The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, by Zoe Playdon
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes begins in Scotland in 1912 and ends in London in the 1960s. This sterling work of nonfiction tells the story of a trans child named Ewan Forbes and follows
Recommended Reading: A Dream of a Woman, by Casey Plett
With Little Fish, Casey Plett established herself as a writer willing to and adept at writing trans women characters with a kind of nuance and complexity rarely seen. With A Dream of a Woman, she
Recommended Reading: A Symmetry, by Ari Banias
Inside the refuse of our pre-/mid-/post-apocalyptic age, Ari Banias revels in the beauty hidden outside the reach of capitalism’s ugly hand—sometimes discovered in his microscope’s lens (“a large tree tosses its wig a little”), sometimes
Recommended Reading: Punch Me Up to the Gods, by Brian Broome
In his memoir Punch Me Up to the Gods, Brian Broome chronicles growing up gay and Black in 1980s Ohio and how his search for love and belonging led him to Pittsburgh and beyond that
Recommended Reading: Racial Erotics, by C. Winter Han
Racial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire argues that, of course, white supremacy doesn’t end the moment gay men cross the threshold into bedrooms, bars, and virtual meet-ups. Armed
Recommended Reading: Antiman, by Rajiv Mohabir
Mixing poetry, transcripts of spoken stories, and first-person narrative, Rajiv Mohabir first probes and later peels away the multiple layers of racism, colonialism, xenophobia, and queer hatred that have long kept him from knowing the
Recommended Reading: Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, by Jeremy Atherton Lin
The 2020s, so far, have erupted in a profound culture quake, with little to tether individuals to the world before pandemic, uprising, and insurrection arrested the nation. The desire to be bound to a fixed