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missing persons by sam sax

ode to prince by hanif abdurraqib

social skills training by solmaz sharif

men by maya angelou

DL N8 4 3SOME by jake skeets

having a coke with you by frank o'hara

jubilate homo by ellen bass

carpet bomb by kenyatta rogers

border patrol agent by eduardo c corral

heart condition by jericho brown

tell me something good by ocean vuong

letter to S, hospital by emily skaja

we lived happily during the war by ilya kaminsky

long division by matthew dickman

the american security against foreign enemies act by lucie brock-broido

you will never get death out of a system by dana levin

letter to chi by franny choi

14 lines from love letters or suicide notes by doc luben

said the confederate flag to the american flag by RJ walker

worms by shyla hardwick

blood makes the blade holy by evan knoll

the 17 year old & the gay bar by danez smith

gone is gone by mark wunderlich

another elegy ["this is what our dying looks like"] by jericho brown

making a fist by naomi shihab nye

grief puppet by donte collins

letter to my heart from my brain by rachel mckibbens

the song of despair by pablo neruda

where my grandmother hides by caitlin conlon

grief by matthew dickman

kaddish by sam sax

elegy for neal cassady by allen ginsberg

grief work by natalie diaz

poem for jack spicer by matthew zapruder

elegy with black smoke by emily skaja

evening by dorianne laux

letter to my dead brother part 1 by jonny bolduc

drunktown by jake skeets

hunter by bianca stone

blood makes the blade holy by evan knoll

object permanence by hala alyan

people who died by ted berrigan

Class readings in order of when they were assigned.

Laurie Marhoefer, “Lesbianism, Transvestitism, and the Nazi State: A Microhistory of a Gestapo Investigation, 1939–1943” (2016)

Katie Sutton, “Sexology’s Photographic Turn: Visualizing Trans Identity in Interwar Germany” (2018)

Evan B. Towle and Lynn Marie Morgan, “Romancing The Transgender Native: Rethinking the Use of the ‘Third Gender’ Concept” (2002)

Aniruddha Dutta and Raina Roy, “Decolonizing Transgender in India, Some Reflections” (2014)

Qwo-Li Driskill, “Doubleweaving Two-Spirit Critiques: Building Alliances between Native and Queer Studies” (2010)

Qwo-Li Driskill, Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer & Two Spirit Memory (2016)

Kai Pyle, “Naming and Claiming: Recovering Ojibwe and Plains Cree Two-Spirit Language” (2018)

Megan J. Sinnott, Toms and Dees: Transgender Identity and Same-Sex Relationships in Thailand (2004)

Howard Chiang, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (2018)

Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Mapping Transformations Of Sex, Gender, And Sexuality In Modern Iran” (2005)

Cece McDonald, “Go beyond our natural selves: The Prison Letters of Cece McDonald” (2017)

Kai M. Green and Marquis Bey, "Where Black Feminist Thought and Trans* Feminism Meet: A Conversation" (2018)

Cassius Adair, “Licensing Citizenship: Anti-Blackness, ID Documents, and Transgender Studies” (2019)

Cole Rizki, “Latin/x American Trans Studies” (2019)

Hillary Hiner and Juan Carlos Garrido, “Antitrans State Terrorism: Trans and Travesti Women, Human Rights, and Recent History in Chile” (2019)

“L'acqua ch'io prendo già mai non si corse; Minerva spira, e conducemi Appollo, e nove Muse mi dimostran l'Orse.“

(“The seas I sail were never sailed before. Minerva fills my sails, Apollo is my guide, nine Muses point me toward the Bears.”)

I Am Not Ready To Die Yet by Aracelis Girmay

A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde

Snowdrops by Louise Glück

Most Days I Want to Live by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Insha’Allah by Danusha Laméris

A Good Day by Kait Rokowski

Invitation by Mary Oliver

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón

Tommorow is a Place by Sanna Wani

The World Has Need of You by Ellen Bass

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke

To the Young Who Want to Die by Gwendolyn Brooks

Night Walk by Franz Wright

Sorrow is Not My Name by Ross Gay

Everything Is Waiting For You by David Whyte

The Letter by Linda Greg

Testify by Eve L. Ewing

What would be the best way to find this on JSTOR?

Dang, that's a tough one! You may be able to use this Queer Theory Reading List from Brown University as kind of a start by browsing the names of the authors, though we realize that's far from ideal.

Asking a librarian is always a good idea, they have a surprising amount of tricks up their capable sleeves.

The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes is also a good piece about trans history, but it's not written by a trans individual. I also just wrote a post about queer archaeological theory.

anon im sorry i have NO CLUE what you are going on about but i wish i did because that sounds hilarious

It’s Greek rather than Latin, but to quote said article:

Me watching the gay people in my phone get psychic damage from my silly little uquiz

You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He's the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.

This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain's deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as "a tragic display of a painter's failing battle with schizophrenia."

The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.

Ok got all that?

So here's the thing.

Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although "Schizophrenia" is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting "normal" pictures of cats.

The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.

Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.

4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly

I knew all about "the Schizophrenic cat Guy" but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.

the oral history project from act up

the lesbian herstory archives

the transgender archives of the university of victoria

the digital transgender archives

glbt historical society (digital)

anything that moves

a masterpost of lesile feinberg’s works by @genderoutlaws

the dyke march compilation 

paris is burning 

how to survive a plague

united in anger: a history of ACT UP

one archives

confess your secrets to me and i’ll tell you what you need to hear.