Black Queer and Trans* Reading List.
Please add books or essays written by Black and/or POC Queer and Trans* writers (fiction and non-fiction) and books or essays written about the Black Queer and Trans* experience.
Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology by E. Patrick Johnson (Editor), Mae G. Henderson
Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” by Cathy Cohen (PDF)
Death and Rebirth of a Movement:Queering Critical Ethnic Studies by Cathy Cohen (PDF)
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (Queer Ideas/Queer Action by Andrea J. Ritchie
Mutha Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture by L.H. Stallings
Black Queer Identity Matrix: Towards An Integrated Queer of Color Framework (Black Studies & Critical Thinking: Lgbt Studies) by Sheena C. Howard
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction by Don Weise
Black Girl Dangerous on Race, Queerness, Class and Gender by Mia McKenzie
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries: Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle (PDF) A compilation of historical documents, interviews, and critical analyses of STAR, a group of street queens in early 70s New York City who self-organized for survival and revolt. Contained within are pamphlets distributed by STAR, as well as interviews with and speeches by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Additionally, we are excited to include a critical essay by Ehn Nothing on STAR’s legacy, the enemies of queer insurrection, and the war against gender.
Decolonizing Trans/gender 101 by b. binaohan A short, accessible disruption of the hegemonic and imperial aspirations of white trans/gender theory. it seeks to remedy the reductive (and, thus, violent erasure) nature of trans/gender 101s that seek to explicate (but really construct) a white trans/gender discourse assumed to have universal legitimacy. a legitimacy that has widespread implications and consequences far beyond the borders of whiteness.
