Maud Madsen (Canadian, 1993) - Strawberry Moon (2023)

I'm on some kind of gayass journey

Tapping the sign.

i love you trans history save me trans hsitory

it already has bro

it already has....

i keep meeting transfems whose personalities are like, gaping wounds. girls who've been stomped on over and over until they start thinking they're uniquely evil and they deserve it. people shouldn't be allowed to treat us like this.

It hurts to see people I care about think they deserve to be mistreated.

This is making me cry

Thank you for including those tags. I need to save that and post it on a few discords every once in a while

(via The First Female Photographer of Turkey: Beautiful Portrait Photos Taken by Maryam Şahinyan)

that address so you can click:

And we're live! If you've enjoyed watching me read all these fantastic books by black transfemmes over the last few days, then definitely check up this write-up of all the black transfeminine novelists on my radar and their work ❤️

I realized early in my research that unless you make an active effort to read black trans novels, the number you'll end up reading by accident is probably ZERO. They're so hard to find. Even making it a priority to find these books, this is all I turned up in a full year. And even when you do, most of the most prominent black trans novelists - Solomon, Emezi, Callender, etc. - aren't transfemme. The only book here that I've seen pop up with regularity is LOTE, and even then it's hardly the most common.

TLDR if twenty people walked away from this article with the decision to go buy one of these books, I’ll consider it a success ❤️

@kla1991 A lot of the early black transfemme novelists are very het (Hayes, Anderson, Gordon). I know that Yemaya’s Daughters is pretty het but I don’t know enough about the rest of Edidi’s work to say. Can’t judge for Clark either, nor the books that haven’t released yet.

Shola Von Reinhold’s work is…. Honestly I don’t remember? Sexuality didn’t feel like the focus, or maybe I’m just a little too aspec lmao.

Kuchenga Shenjé’s work definitely has lesbian themes, but I would describe it as most textually bisexual. Same with Roberta Angela Dee, Sasha is super bisexual.

And Nadia Nova’s work is very, very Sapphic.

Actually this needs more context @kla1991

A lot of early work by black trans woman focuses on a phenomenon called DL (Down-Low) Black male sexuality, which was basically where Black men in the early 00s would have loving relationships with women while quietly having affairs with men on the side. Here's a really good book about the topic.

So like, a lot of what Pamela Hayes and Daneisha Gordon especially were commenting on was the relationship - and crucially the differences - between bisexual Black men who engaged in DL activities, and Black trans women who were just trying to live their lives on the day-to-day. The themes often focus on like, the relationships between Black trans women and bisexual Black men, how Black trans women were sometimes seen as like a "safe" option for a DL Black man, and how destructive that could be to the women involved.

So like, a lot of these early texts are very focused on sexuality, but it's much more about gay and bisexual male sexuality and the position of trans women within it than it is Sapphic.

Shared this article on Reddit if folks want to help me spread it around: https://www.reddit.com/r/LGBTBooks/s/N2xhWEETA9

In my heart of hearts, all I want is for some wonderful soul to pop up in the comments with a list of twenty authors that I’ve somehow overlooked.

Realistically I know I’m probably one of the top ten most informed people about this in the entire world.

From Dagger on Butch Women by Lily Burana & Roxxie Linnea Due

(read it for free on archive.org)

Link to original tweet

Non paywalled article:

Nabhaan Rizwan as Dionysus "Episode 1" — KAOS (1.01)

meaningful work: transgender experience in the sex trade

Jackie Sabbagh, “Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately”

In 2005, Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive free, legal sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender.

Phyllis Christopher, Klitz sex club

I relate to this so much. for years, even after I knew that I was trans, I thought that I didn't really experience gender dysphoria. it was only after I started transitioning that I realized how much it had affected me

The first time I saw this thread (which was when I read the gender dysphoria bible, which includes this thread and I think some other tweets with trans perspectives), I cried and finally accepted I was trans because I realized it was describing my life to a T.

I had sort of known I was trans for 8 years and sort of accepted it as true without acknowledging it or allowing it to enter the forefront of my thoughts except during occasional moments of deep introspection, but I felt like I was only technically trans, but it wasn’t really impacting my life. This (along with the other stuff I read that night) made me realize I’m not an edge case or something close to but not quite trans. What I am and what trans means are the same thing.

The only thing I disagreed with was about not knowing about career goals, but that’s just because I stumbled into a couple easy defaults I could just go with.

Gender Dysphoria Bible

Turn Me Into A Girl

links for anyone who may be unsure

Hi !

I got bottom surgery on July 25th :3

I'm recovering well but I'll be on bedrest for a while. Collie and I will need rent help for September/food/gas/utilities/etc. Two disabled trans women. Anything helps ! Thank yall so much for all you've helped so far, it's saved my life ❤️

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