Selected Literature

Building Bridges by Jenny Roberts: Ms. Roberts' thoughtfully describes how transwomen can find acceptance within women's spaces. Her essay is essential reading for lesbian-identified transsexuals.
Enlivening Power of Darkness: The Writings of Susan Stryker: Two brilliant performance pieces by Ms. Stryker, both exploring aspects of transsexual embodiment.
Too Radical: The Writings of Riki Anne Wilchins: Seven prose works and eight poems by one of the finest transsexual writers I know.
Terms of Empowerment: The Writings of Jessica Xavier: An small selection of works by Ms. Xavier.
Trance-Sexual: The Writings of Rachel Pollack: Two important essays on the spiritual dimensions of transsexuality by this award-winning transsexual writer.
"The Transsexual Sweatshirt," from Deborah Feinbloom's Transvestites and Transsexuals: Feinbloom's 1976 book contained this remarkable meditation on authentic personhood by an anonymous transsexual woman. Her analysis is as relevant today as it was three decades ago.