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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2m

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Rainbow @rainbowlesbiab.bsky.social · 1d

Hewwo! I wrote some words again! Like, 35k of them (don't ask how, I have no clue) and now they're up as part of the Autumn Secret Lair Bundle! If you like secret identity drama, magical girls, gay women, and villainous beans too pure for this world, you'll probably like it!

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12m

TL;DR this book is incredible, but it was also written 120 years ago.

Comparable to the messy legacy of Conundrum IMO.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14m

She also spends a bunch of time in the last act sleeping around with soldiers on an unnamed "reservation" and the implications of that are, uh, in need of further interrogation. Especially knowing that she saw her calling as a missionary.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 16m

Like yeah, obviously the book written in the 19th Century is gonna be dated.

Doesnt change the fact that June calls Chinese immigrants "repulsive" and spends a fair amount of time fantasizing about doing missionary work to the "uncivilized" people of the global south.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 19m

My thoughts upon finish are somewhat conflicted (there's some racist elements and other extremely dated messy parts that need further consideration) but I'm gonna give it a few days to marinate before I write a full review.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 22m

Love it or hate it, this should be required reading for *any* student of contemporary trans literature or history. What a remarkable book.

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 41m

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Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 2h

Can you believe we forgot to post this here? We are doing a DOUBLE FEATURE this month with THE @maxdelsohn.bsky.social to celebrate the release of Crawl !!!

Lilac Peril presents
Max Delsohn's
DOUBLE FEATURE
virtual workshop
Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST
HOW TO "KILL LIES:" WRITING AGAINST RECEIVED LANGUAGE
reading + q & a
Wed, October 29 at 6 PM EST
PEOPLE'S BOOK
7014-A WESTMORELAND AVE,
TAKOMA PARK, MARYLAND 20912

Max Delsohn's writing appears
in McSweeney's
Quarterly Concern, VICE, Joyland, The Rumpus, and Triangle House, among other places. His debut short story collection, Crawl, about trans men in Seattle during the 2010s, will be published by Graywolf Press on Oct. 21, 2025. He earned his MFA in fiction from Syracuse University. He lives in Los Angeles.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1h

Yes, exactly. Thank you for phrasing it eloquently, I am sleepy.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

As an aspec person, I feel an obligation to point out that 'I am personally struggling to understand this' is absolutely not the same as 'kink is bad.'

Like I read a ton of trans books that are very kink forward, and I love many of them. It just takes me some extra mental steps sometimes.

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Luke :) @lukejsuth.bsky.social · 2h

This is in one week :) free and virtual!

Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social · 2h

The workshop is virtual and free and that means 🫵YOU🫵 can attend www.eventbrite.com/e/trans-writ...

workshop topic
HOW TO "KILL LIES:"
WRITING AGAINST
RECEIVED LANGUAGE
Nico Walker, the infamous bankrobber-turned-novelist,
once wrote in BookForum, "Any writer worth a fuck should be in the business of killing lies." This generative writing workshop will consider the clichés, disinformation, and reductive language that plague minority writers specifically and employ them as writing prompts. We will begin by looking at some remarkable lie-killers across identity groups and history (potential writers include Torrey Peters, Andrea Long Chu, Imogen Binnie, Kay Gabriel, Leslie Feinberg, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ralph Ellison, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, Charles Yu, Mosab Abu Toha, and Nafissa Thompson-Spires) and finish with a writing exercise in which we, as trans artists, write directly against and past the language wrongly applied
to us.
Sat, October 18 at 2 PM EST
Virtual, registration in bio

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

As an aspec person, I feel an obligation to point out that 'I am personally struggling to understand this' is absolutely not the same as 'kink is bad.'

Like I read a ton of trans books that are very kink forward, and I love many of them. It just takes me some extra mental steps sometimes.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

Hell yeah love that for you

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Oh and this is both in the public domain and free on Trans Reads BTW. Here's the link for anyone who wants to check it out:

transreads.org

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

Oh 100%! I'm unbelievably happy that this somehow managed to survive a century of censorship unscathed, it's enormously cool.

I just sometimes feel like a laboratory scientist whenever I read something this sexuality forward lol. I read erotica the same way as nonfiction.

Violet Velvet @violet-velvet.bsky.social · 2h

Kink is inextricably linked to Pride, and has a lot of overlap with many leftist causes besides.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

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vampironique emma houxbois @emmahouxbois.bsky.social · 2h

we were always this way

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

I'm not sure what I expected from the trans memoir from 1918, but an excessive amount of oversharing about BDSM was not it lol.

I might have to add this to the pile of "good books that are so kinky that I have no idea what them" books.

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Minnie 🏳️‍⚧️🍁 @minniebeee.bsky.social · 2h

I have never needed to read a book more in my life

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

I'm not sure what I expected from the trans memoir from 1918, but an excessive amount of oversharing about BDSM was not it lol.

I might have to add this to the pile of "good books that are so kinky that I have no idea what them" books.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

I'm too asexual to parse all this lol

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2h

I'm not sure what I expected from the trans memoir from 1918, but an excessive amount of oversharing about BDSM was not it lol.

I might have to add this to the pile of "good books that are so kinky that I have no idea what them" books.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 11h

How many books have you read in 2025 so far? 📚

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Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 6h

Off the top of my head, trans books I’ve read this year:
Magica Riot,
The Hatchling,
Dorley 1-4,
Hades Calculus,
Beneath Strange Lights,
Kimmy,
WYFFH 1+2,
Heart of the Wolf Goddess,
Sundered Moon.

Non-trans books:
His Dark Materials 2+3,
Queen’s Peril,
The Infinite and the Divine,
Livesuit.

(18!)

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2025: Year of F*** Off @ombrelesbianknight.bsky.social · 8h

About 50. My top 5
A Rotten Girl - Jemma Topaz
Trans/Rad/Fem - Talia Bhatt
The Zeus Constant - Callisto Khan
The Gift of Blood Part 1 - Vaela Denarr and Micah Iannandrea
Absolute Wonder Woman - Kelly Thompson

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 11h

How many books have you read in 2025 so far? 📚

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 3h

Anything niche that I haven't read yet? I've started pulling together mg Halloween list for the year.

Sam(hain) @horrorbutch.bsky.social · 9h

I've also read 28 books that I'd count as trans horror so far, which is very nice and despite not adjusting my reading habits I'm very close to finishing the Trans Rights Readathon 2025 challenge (3 books to go since I want every category to have a unique book in it).

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