And here’s a list of trans and NB media

This is a constantly updating list. Please send me recommendations.

Binary trans youtubers:

• Kat Blaque a black trans woman who talks about race, gender and feminism,
• Chase “you’re trans and don’t have a youtube channel? you need to get on that”,
• Jake Edwards singing about T and talking to NB youtubers,
• Alex Bertie in an adorable Q&A with his sister,
• Gigi Gorgeous seen here casually hanging out with Kylie Jenner.

NB youtubers:

• Kaitlyn Alexander in the best parody video ever,
• Riley Dennis discussing alternative trans narratives and responding to hate comments with sass,
• Roland talking about their 17 piercings yessss,
• theo sharing thoughts about fitting in as NB,
• Milo Stewart seen here causing gender confusion which is always to be supported,
• Tyler Ford seen here in stylelikeu, a video series in which people talk about themselves while undressing
• Dev Blair, and their blog discussing gender, sexuality, race, allyship
• Ashley Wylde, originator of the gender tag
• Vesper NB pan/biromantic asexual living in Japan: vlog about race, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, stuff going on in Japan, body mods
• Ash Hardell, bi, genderqueer/questioning
• MilesChronicles I don’t even know how to describe this channel? It’s crazy bullshit at 300%, watch it immediately

Music/videos:

• Mina Caputo trans musician. I especially love Got Monsters
• Break Free – Ruby Rose
• The Elephant in the Room – The Axis of Awesome and here is Jordan’s coming out video ❤
• Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me! of course
• Jackie Evancho’s cover of All of the Stars

Webseries:

• Herstory —6 really really good episodes about trans women, written and performed by trans women. Includes 1 lesbian love story. It’s compelling and touching and real and infuriating and awesome. Season 2 will be released in 2017 ahhh. (CN: T slur, transphobia, abuse)
• Carmilla — I heard it’s good. I’m just watching it because Kaitlyn is in it playing a genderqueer character 😛 They don’t realise they are NB straight away, so you have to wait a bit.

Blogs:

• Neutrois nonsense
• butchwonders a mostly cis, gender non-conforming perspective
• Butch Please, a genderqueer column
• Sam Dylan Finch who writes about being queer, nb, and intersections with mental health
• Schlomo Steel, about drag, and queer community, and castles in the shit
• Alok Vaid-Menon
• CN Lester, trans activist
• Kasey Weird at Valprehension gender things and demisexual things
• Genderfluent gender things and ace things
• Raye at Genderawesome gender things
• Jamie Ray at A Boy And Her Dog, on the border between butch and trans
• Cassian, who also makes polyinpictures and runs an annual NB/GQ survey
• Thingofthings link is to post that I liked a lot about being cis-by-default

Websites:

• Beyond The Binary, which has lots of things including Agony Auncle written by CN Lester
• We Happy Trans – A place for sharing positive trans* perspectives
• To Survive On This Shore photographs and interviews of older transgender and gender-variant adults

Webcomics:

• transgirlnextdoor
• Rooster Tails and GCutie (NB)
• my many favourites from Robot Hugs (NB), who also writes about sexism and harassment
• some favourites from Assigned Male Comics. It’s really cute and heartwarming!!
• villainette a ridiculously beautiful watercolour comic by Scout Tran-Caffee about being a nonbinary transwoman
• Portside Stories about a person uncovering their gender identity. I inhaled the entire thing in an hour and cried a lot. Was an emotional time. Also read Goodbye to Halos by the same person. Good lord. *cries*.
• Rock and Riot a 50’s comic with queer characters that is very rad

Games/Art/ Weird stuff:

• Porpentine I don’t know how to explain this. Go play her stuff, especially With Those We Love Alive

Spoken word:

• here’s a list of NB spoken word poets,
• Bex Kwan NB poet of Singaporean origin
• Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon, the last is a performance of the last part of the book Gender Failure

Short stories:

• A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers by Alyssa Wong. This was amazingly beautiful. Everything Alyssa writes leaves me breathless. (As far as I know, Alyssa is not trans. CN: suicide)
• If Harry Potter was a trans girl, one-shot fanfic. As far as I know, this writer is not trans either, but it’s good. (Not trans-related but social justice related: I also really liked their series in defense of the Hogwarts ladies, and if Harry Potter was a squib)

Books (links are to Goodreads reviews; I got most of these on bookdepo, and will lend them to you if you happen to live nearby. I have not read most of them yet, and will review them as I go along.):

• Gender Failure by Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon, on the AFAB NB experience. I loved it. A review will be up shortly.
• Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote
• Anything else written by Ivan, really.
• The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You by S. Bear Bergman, also on the transmasculine experience
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, a collection of essays from trans writers
• Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein
• My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein. Here’s a pdf of the introduction.
• Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore about the intersections of identity
• Assuming a Body : Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality by Gayle Salamon. This is too academic for my interests, just putting it here in case that’s what you are into
• The Gender Book a very comprehensive gender101 that you can get on a pay as you can basis

Articles in Mainstream Media, because heck, why not:

• Esquire:  I’m Not Male. I’m Not Female. Please Don’t Ask Me About My Junk.
• Guardian: Jack Monroe: ‘I want to be treated as a person, not as a woman or a man’
• Washington Post: When no gender fits: A quest to be seen as just a person
• Time: Miley Cyrus: ‘You Can Just Be Whatever You Want to Be’ (She’s genderfluid! woah I did not know that)
• Nat Geo: How Science Is Helping Us Understand Gender

Resources for the Confused Cis:

• Trans 101 videos and written material
• TransWhat? A Guide Towards Allyship
• Slate: What the Heck is Genderqueer?
• NPR: Everyone Uses Singular ‘They’, Whether They Realise It Or Not
• The Gender Unicorn
• They Is My Pronoun: guide to using singular They
• Buzzfeed: 16 Easy Ways To Support The Transgender People In Your Life

Resources for the questioning Maybe-Not-Cis, other than everything above:

• Neutrois Nonsense: The Gender Playbook: A Guide To Figuring Out Your Non-Binary Gender
• Valprehension: I don’t know why I identify as genderqueer. I just know that I do.
• Everyday Feminism: I Think I Might Be Trans: 8 Important Notes On Questioning and 50+ Resources to Get You Started
• Huffington Post: How do I know if I’m trans
• Ways2Raise, an NB advice blog on tumblr that answers anon asks
• If you only read one thing, read Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Resources for the Not-Cis in Crisis, other than everything above:

• Trans Lifeline there’s a US and a Canada number. I imagine it is possible to Skype phone.
• There are some things I need to tell you.
• 25 Things I Do To Make My Body Dysphoria Feel Smaller and Quieter
• If you only read one thing, read Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

Misc. Articles I want to link to but have no heading for:

• For The Love of Transmisandry, on transmisogyny in the trans community
• Op-ed: Why Are Narratives Around Transgender People Always So Negative?
• The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories on categorisation problems and what gender trans people are *really*
• Performance Piece by Julia Serano on gender and performativity

Here’s the same video of Nikolas Lima singing a duet with himself pre- and post- testosterone that I posted before. It’s just so beautiful…

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