In celebration of Trans Awareness Week, and to show trans visibility during such a tumultuous time, Kris and Rian share their thoughts on the trans memoirs they’ve read, and the impact they’ve had on their own journeys through gender transition.
00:00 Intro to the episode and Trans Awareness Week
01:37 Trigger warnings
02:48 Read/Watch/Play updates
08:06 Our experiences with trans memoirs
12:52 Sorted by Jackson Bird
19:51 As Beautiful As Any Other by Kaya Wilson
36:53 Pageboy by Elliot Page
51:04 Man Alive and Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
54:52 We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan
01:01:37 Trans memoirs on our TBR
01:05:34 Outro, links, and next episode
Trans Memoirs Mentioned:
Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place - Jackson Bird
As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body - Kaya Wilson
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness, and Becoming a Man - Thomas Page McBee
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man - Thomas Page McBee
We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan - Lou Sullivan
Trans Memoirs on our TBR:
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us - Kate Bornstein
She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders - Jennifer Finney Boylan
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity - Julia Serano
Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar: A Journey of Self and Sexual Discovery - Harry Nicholas
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir - Akwaeke Emezi
Becoming Eve: My Journey from ultra orthodox Rabbi to transgender woman - Abby Stein
Other Books Mentioned:
Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
Foot in the Grave - Zachary Forbes
The Mask of Mirrors - M.A. Carrick
Games Mentioned:
Life is Strange: Double Exposure
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