Writer and public transit enthusiast
Happy (almost) solstice! It’s been a hell of a year for trans writing and art. New and established authors published stellar books in every genre you could name, both expanding and deepening the contemporary landscape of trans lit. In the face of escalating censorship and the malignant influence of
My mother, now retired, was a public school librarian. This provided a formative political lesson when I was young. She operated her library like all libraries, as a site of mutual aid, creative expression, and free education. She organized fundraisers, taped poems inside the bathroom stalls around the high school,
I have been reflecting on the life and work of Miss Major after her passing this month at the age of 78. As an activist, organizer, and cultural icon, it is remarkable how much she accomplished and the ways that her impact resonated and grew over decades. In recent days,
Thanks for reading my newsletter! Please share with your friends! Recently, I had the joy of welcoming a friend home from incarceration. Doing this is for me a time of relief and also a bracing confrontation with the police state, both as it exists in prisons and as it extends
I have given myself this reading project of some old trans books, but I have to tell you that this is also a thrilling time for new trans books and art. I finally had a chance this month to read Tourmaline’s Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P.
First newsletter from T Fleischmann, author of Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through. Transsexual thoughts on books, gay history, rural living, and collective liberation. Thanks for reading! As the second Trump regime progresses, I have been reading Patrick Califia’s Public Sex (1994), a collection of his radical