[ID1: Text that reads “Books By Transgender and Non-Binary Black Authors” overlaid an image of different colors of glitter forming a rainbow. End ID1]
[ID2: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Freshwater by Awaeke Emezi (2018) with a blurb that reads: A poetic exploration of trauma, healing, and survival from award-winning poet Comonghne Felix. This is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains
The second book is Pet by Awaeke Emezi (2019) with a blurb that reads: There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best friend named Redemption, Jam has grown up with this lesson all her life. But when she meets Pet, a creatuer made of horns and colours and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told.
The third book is The Death of Vivek Oji by Awaeke Emezi (2020) with a blurb that reads: What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric,at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is both gentle and mysterious. Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts. End ID2]
[ID3: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman by Toni Newman (2011) with a blurb that reads: The life of Ms. Newman has taken her across the United States and through a range of roles, from a drag queen to pro-domme to activist. In I Rise she lays it all out with the hope of bringing attention to marginalized people and the violence inflicted upon them.
The second book is An Unkindess of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (2017) with a blurb that reads: An Unkindness of Ghosts is an Afrofuturist novel centered around inherited trauma and systemic racism, that reimagines the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in space. Likened many times to Octavia Butler, Solomon’s unique take on sci-fi examines black identity and the culture of oppression.
The third book is The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, WIlliam Huston, and Jonathan Snipes (2019) with a blurb that reads: The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed over-board have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’ rap group Clipping. End ID3]
[ID4: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Mannish Tongues by Jayy Dodd (2017) with a blurb that reads: To speak in tongues is to be possessed/overcome by your own body. This collection speaks to these charades of understanding/some things about language, some things about possessions & higher powers.
The second book is The Black Condition ft. Narcissus by Jayy Dodd (2019) with a blurb that reads: The Black Condition ft. Narcissus is preemptive memoir, documenting the beginning of the author’s gender transition and paralleling the inauguration of our latest Administration. These poems speak to and from fears holed up inside while contextualizing the cosmic impacts of our political landscape.
The third book is Sympathetic Little Monster by Cameron Awkward-Rich (2016) with a blurb that reads: Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER attempts to make a space & shape for the little curl who haunts our cultural/personal narratives about blackness & transmasculinity. As a trans coming-of-age text the work is intensely inward-focused, but it resists the imperative of linear autobiography. End ID4]
[ID5: Three book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Transit by Cameron Awkward-Rich (2015) with a blurb that reads: Poetry. African American Studies. “Cameron Awkward-Rich’s wintry collection is full of broken surfaces. Fists surge in bodies, blades cleave skin, but most recurrent, a boy dives into black water.
The second book is Dispatch: Poems by Cameron Awkward-Rich (2019) with a blurb that reads: Set against the media environment that saturates even our most intimate spaces, Dispatch attends to, revises, and thinks adjacent to the news of racial/gendered violence in the US, from the nineteenth century to the present day.
The third book is Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith (2017) with a blurb that reads: Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police, a place where suspicion, violence, and grief are forgotten and replaced with the safety, love, and longevity they deserved here on earth. Smith turns then to desire, mortality the dangers experienced in skin and body and blood and a diagnosis of HIV positive. End ID5]
[ID6: Two book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton (2017) with a blurb that reads: The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects. In Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.
The second book is Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah by The Lady Chablis (1997) with a blurb that reads: Born Benjamin Edward Knox in Quincy, Florida, “The Doll” always knew she was different. At a Tallahassee club, in her teens, she found the drag mother who would set her on the path to stardom. Before long, The Lady Chablis had a headline drag act replete with trademark saucy wit, down-home wisdom, and, of course, breasts. The rest is “Miss Thang” history…. End ID6]
[ID7: Two book covers next to blocks of text giving their title and an expository blurb. The first book is The Black Trans Prayer Book edited by J Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi (2020) with a blurb reading: The Black Trans Prayer Book is an interfaith and beyond faith collection of poems, spells, incantations, theological narrative, and visual offerings by Black Trans, Non-Binary, and Intersex people.
The second book is And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer’s Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death by J Mase III with a blurb that reads: This book is an unexpected and lively conversation between the author and reader on grief, Black Trans survival and the arts. Whether you are currently moving through grief mode, love a good poem, or just want some tools to deal with painful experiences, this book is for you. More importantly, this book is for all of us who deserve a place to be honest when things get hard. End ID7]
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