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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This empowering guide shows you how to live your best non-binary life, and offers experienced advice for non-binary people on how to navigate the world and their evolving identity. Covering everything from fashion and dating, to work and growing up, to future key debates, these funny tales and light-hearted anecdotes speak directly to the non-binary community. Read this inspirational, honest and celebratory book if you want to forge a better, more...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An essential comic-book journey from the creators of Queer: A Graphic History that will change the way you think about gender. Is masculinity 'toxic?' Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? Why might we all benefit from challenging binary thinking about sex/gender? In this unique illustrated guide, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele travel through our shifting understandings...
Author
Series
Road to Nowhere volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the apocalypse, Flora has come of age in a highly gendered post-plague society where females have become a precious, coveted, hunted, and endangered commodity. But Flora does not participate in the economy that trades in bodies. An anathema in a world that prizes procreation above all else, she is an outsider everywhere she goes, including the thriving all-female city of Shy. Now navigating a blighted landscape, Flora, her friends,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Transgender History covers American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today. From the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following "World War II to trans radicalism and social change in the '60s and '70s to the gender issues witnessed throughout the '90s and '00s, this introductory text will give you a foundation for understanding the developments, changes, strides, and setbacks of trans studies...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Transgender studies, broadly defined, has become increasingly prominent as a field of study over the past several decades, particularly in the last ten years. The experiences and rights of trans people have also increasingly become the subject of news coverage, such as the ability of trans people to access restrooms, their participation in the military, the issuing of driver's licenses that allow a third gender option, the growing visibility of nonbinary...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"There is no one way to be transgender. Transgender and gender non-conforming people have many different ways of understanding their gender identities. Only recently have sex and gender been thought of as separate concepts, and we have learned that sex (traditionally thought of as physical or biological) is as variable as gender (traditionally thought of as social). While trans people share many common experiences, there is immense diversity within...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The transgender community is more visible now than ever before, but the diversity within this community has remained obscure in the workplace as organizations, corporations, and institutions struggle to keep up with the rate at which transgender communities are gaining visibility. For leaders seeking best practices related to bathroom access, workplace transition, hiring practices, inclusive workplace culture, and more, this book offers guidance...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Pronouns are a meaningful part of identifying who we are. We can't know someone's pronouns just by looking at them or knowing their name, so it's important to ask! This book encourages kids AND grownups to get uncomfortable, learn new things, make mistakes, and choose to grow. It's not about always getting it right, but it is about being loving and continuous in our effort."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture, they rarely have the opportunity to add their own voices to the conversation. In this remarkable book, the author records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender. They range in age from fifteen to seventy-two; come from twenty-five different states and a wide array of racial, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds; and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
What do you do when your son insists on wearing a dress to school? Or when your toddler daughter's first sentence is that she's a boy? Offering an extensive understanding of gender-variant and transgender youth, The Transgender Child answers these questions and more. Covering developmental, legal, medical, and school issues, The Transgender Child is a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique challenges that thousands of families face...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Explore new and familiar worlds where the human consciousness can be uploaded into a body on Mars . . . an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels . . . two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station . . . people are forced to travel to the past or the future to escape the dying planet . . . only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future . . . everyone in the world...
74) Framing Agnes
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The pseudonymous Agnes was a pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender health study conducted at UCLA in the 1960s. Her clever use of the study to gain access to gender-affirming healthcare led to her status as a fascinating and celebrated figure in trans history. In this innovative cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt uses Agnes's story, along with others unearthed in long-shelved case...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional, and social issues of trans kids. These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans life has become front and center after years of marginalization. And kids are coming out as trans at younger and younger ages, which is a good thing for them. But what written...
77) Bye Bye, Binary
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What's it to ya?! Our little bundle of joy has arrived -- to dismantle gender norms! A board book about gender expression and being true to oneself" --
78) We are mayhem
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Birdie must overcome her desire to blend in so she can help new friend Abigail Rose take her family's amateur wrestling promotion in a new, more feminist direction.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life. Whether it is the bathroom issue in North Carolina, trans people in the military, or on television, trans life has become front and center after years of marginalization. And kids are coming out as trans at younger and younger ages, which is a good thing for them. But what written resources are available to parents, teachers, and mental health professionals...
Series
Han'guk kojŏn munhak chŏnjip volume 019
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Ch'op'an.
Language
Korean
Description
A nineteenth-century female hero novel about a woman who disguises herself as a man. It is unusual in that the heroine does not eventually return to a woman's life and marry a man, but instead marries another woman, who had previously rejected marriage because she could not stomach being subordinate to a husband.
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