Celebrate Trans Authors and Trans Characters this Transgender Awareness Week!

Happy Transgender Awareness Week everyone!! We asked our rec list contributors for their favorite books with trans characters or by trans authors, and the result is this list of 20 awesome books, all with trans characters (though some open to interpretation) and most by trans authors! This adds to the list of 11 books we did for Transgender Awareness Week last year. The contributors to this list are: Linnea Peterson, S. J. Ralston, Nina Waters and Shannon.

May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor
Acting the Part by Z.R. Ellor
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa
An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
Dreadnought by April Daniels
The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist by Ben Barres
Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing
Deadendia: The Watcher’s Test by Hamish Steele
Cheer Up! Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier & Val Wise
The Pirate and the Porcelain Girl by Emily Riesbeck
Kim & Kim by Magdalene Visaggio & Eva Cabrera
Submerged by Vita Ayala
Rules For Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore
The Prospects by KT Hoffman
Brooms by Jasmine Walls
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
Free From Falling by E.L. Massey

What are your favorite books by trans authors and/or starring trans characters?

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purpleyin

I really love Unfuck Your Habitat. Not just the book - although that I would recommend and was very helpful for getting better at having less anxiety about not being able to clean everything due to being ill - but the FB group too for asking for advice.

Got a neat suggestion over there for using different coloured cloth bags as a flexible way to organise different foods in a chest freezer. Hoping to find some cheap but largeish bags of various colours in town later in the week to have a go at that. Would be nice to actually be sure where roughly stuff is in that cavernous hole of a freezer.

#life hacks #book recs #tidying #organising #unfuck your habitat

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nianeyna

shipping-isnt-morality

Anonymous asked:

WOW so i knew an utter jackass once for like four days before i cut contact who (cw aphobia and rape/rape fantasies mention) went off saying all the ace women he knew (weren't really ace because they) had rape fantasies, and that's been knocking around in my head for a while and i just pulled up the wikipedia page on my secret garden and apparently rape fantasies are a normal thing that some women just /have/ and I'm just so fucking oddly relieved and amazed that i had to tell someone

shipping-isnt-morality answered:

My Secret Garden is a book by Nancy Friday which compiled a book of women’s sexual fantasies in the 1970’s. It’s available here; if you can’t afford it, DM me for a PDF.

I really encourage everyone to read it, mostly because it’s shocking how many parallels there are between the fantasies of women from almost 50 years ago (and since plenty of older women contributed, in all it stretches back almost 100 years) and today.

Yeah, rape fantasies feature heavily and in various forms: force, humiliation, guilt, abdicating responsibility, all kinds of stuff. There was also a frankly startling amount of bestiality (there’s an entire chapter on dogs, I, ??????????) incest, exhibitionism, and at least one omorashi fetishist before that whole concept came over from Japan.

I didn’t read every fantasy start to finish, the book’s pretty good about hinting at what you’re in for during the introductions to the fantasy. Still, the sheer variety, the running themes of sexualizing fear and guilt and shame, and also the fact that one of the constants of fantasies is knotting, of all things, made this super worth reading.

If you’re fascinated by sexuality and smut, if you’ve ever judged people for their sexual fantasies, or most of all if on some level you’re still worried, deep down, that your fantasies are abnormal and they do make you a freak, please read this book.

#book recs #sexuality #sexual fantasies #have read this and confirm it's a pretty interesting book #my local library actually had a copy of it too #nifty to understand why certain fantasies are common ones #also some in there I had no idea were common #does a good job of talking over the difference between what people want in a fantasy and in real life