Today is #TransDayofVisibility—an important opportunity to listen to and amplify the voices of the trans community. Today and always we stand with the LGBTQ2+ community as we share their victories.
In recognition of this important day, we’ve put together a reading list of BC-published books by trans authors. To take your learning further, many of BC’s indie booksellers have also curated reading lists by trans and LGBTQ2+ authors. Check them out below!
Read on!
Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis by Florence Ashley (UBC Press)
From the publisher: Survivors of conversion practices—interventions designed to prevent people from being trans—have likened them to torture. In the last decade, bans on these deeply unethical and harmful acts have proliferated, and governments across the world are considering following suit. However, despite this political momentum, few governments, scholars, or advocates have focused on the conversion experiences of transgender people.
Out Now!
Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook by Jules Sherred (Touchwood Editions)
Written by a transgender author and advocate and described by Dorothy Ellen Palmer as “so much more than a cookbook! It’s an empathetic and expert guidebook full of tips, tricks and recipes, that helped this disabled senior safely equip and organize my kitchen, then plan, prep, cook, store, and enjoy tasty meals. Embracing the diversity of food and the diverse energy levels of aging with a disability, it’s a must have.”
Coming May 5, 2023!
Baby Drag Queen by C.A. Tanaka (Orca Book Publishers)
In his senior year of high school, transgender teen Ichiro enters a drag contest in hopes of earning enough money to live off the grid, but struggles to keep his drag a secret and worries about what his friends and classmates might think of him.
Coming April 11, 2023!
Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (Arsenal Pulp Press)
“I loved this book. Plante masterfully depicts the plurality that is woven into the lives of transwomen. Any Other City dances you through the walls of fact and fiction, of time and place, to give us a heart-wrenchingly beautiful glimpse of a life lived through many lives.” — jiaqing wilson-yang
Join the author for a book launch at Vancouver’s Massy Arts Society on April 21.
Coming April 18, 2023!
A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett (Arsenal Pulp Press)
A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett.
“Casey Plett’s stories are exquisite, riveting, transformative, reasonably pissed off and joyously and riskily generous in the audience they imagine.” — Trish Salah
Coming April 4, 2023!