bibliography on
Islam and trans
people
resources for
queer and trans
folks who are
arab and/or
Muslim
some ideas to get you started. please send me corrections and suggestions!
Gary's List:
Honey, Honey, Miss Thang: Young, Black, Gay and on the Streets is interviews with black transwomen Lt. Nun: The Memoirs of Catalina de Erauso, is the autobiography of a 17th century Latino ftm
Living the Spirit: Gay Native Americans, has some trans content
Two Spirit People: Native American Gender, Sexuality and Spirituality, has mixed white and non-white content
Two Spirit People: Native American Lesbian Women and Gay Men has mixed white and non-white content that includes anti-trans and trans-inclusive material (the editor is anti-trans)
Leslie Feinberg is Jewish background, and so is Kate Borstein, so I include them as 'ethnic minorities', though they do not to my knowledge ID as 'people of color'
There are several erotic fiction pieces on the Roughriders site by and about trans people of color: www.netgsi.com/~listwrangler/roughriders.html. Many of the stories are very high quality and illuminating of the cultural dilemmas that come with the gender dilemmas of people of color; I'm thinking in particular of 'Habibi' by Nadyalec (Arab American ftm) and my own story 'Slow Dancing with My Skeleton' (I'm Native American), as well as others.
There are a variety of other stories as well. One day I hope to do a 'best of Roughriders' book, but that's not even in the proposal stage at this time. I plan to work on it next summer.
I've published some things; I have an autobiographical piece in Feinberg's book: Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue. It specifically addresses my Native American heritage.
Constance Johnson is working on documentary about Black FTMs, but I don't know when it will be available.
This is all I know about. As you can see, it's not much. People have color have been whited out, and when it suits an academic career, trotted out and reinterpreted by (white) ethnographers.
However, I am currently preparing a proposal to publish an anthology by trans people of color. It's very early in the planning stages, I am preparing to approach a publisher. Stay tuned.
Gary Bowen
Anne's Note:
Neither Man Nor Woman, by Dr. Serena Nanda should be on this list. There's a whole genre of extremely exploitive and hateful anti-hijra books, most notably "The Invisibles", by Zia Jaffery. Anne Ogborn
Ahimsa's Letter: Sisters n brothers,... hope this is helpful. N Gary, please do keep us posted with the potential trans poc antho as it develops. Here's a partial list of some of the other trans poc/mixed blood authors I know n can think of off the top of my head: Dominique FlameRosaNegra Leslie, Taylon Angelino, Shadow Morton, Antigone McDermott, Sky Renfro, Mike Hernández, Connie Amarathithada, Hida Villoria, Kim Iwamoto, Rebecca Elizabeth Weems, Nadyalec, Yoseñio V. Lewis, José Sarria, Max Wolf Valerio, Angela Moreno, Déjà Dior-Britt, Kiki Whitlock, Chino Chung, Vincent Villanueva, Willy Wilkinson, Tony Barreto-Neto, Christopher Lee, Tamara Ching, Ms. Major, Marcus de María Arana, Tala Brandeis, n Joan Jett Blakk.
Currently, I personally am in the process of finishing up my first solo book, _Yerbabuena/Mala yerba, All My Roots Need Rain: mixed blood poetry & prose_, as well as editing (n still seeking submissions for) both a men of color loving men of color anthology n a men of color survivors of violence collection, both of which r trans-inclusive. Also in the works r a collection of interviews with queer multiracial/mixed blood leaders n an anthology of writings by queer Jews of color, also both trans-inclusive. If anyone's interested in any of the above people or any of my own work or projects, please let me know.
Much blessings n peace,
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán
My addition: This came more-or-less verbatim from a thread on tgpoc, the listserve that I maintain for transgendered people of color & our allies. You are most welcome to join--write me and I'll tell you how!
