Transgender History, Third Edition
A Resource for Today's Struggle—and Tomorrow's

Historians believe that the Cooper Do-nut Riot in 1959 was the first modern LGBTQ uprising in the US (a decade before Stonewall). Police officers demanded identification from trans people on the streets of Los Angeles as a way to arrest them for sex work, vagrancy, loitering, and “so-called nuisance......more

A history of trans people that's actually mostly about trans people?? Perposterous! Contextualizing trans history within the framework of broader human history? Now you've gone too far, Susan Stryker. Far too far.......more

I wasn't going to comment on this book at all, since I was already familiar with most of the material from elsewhere. I very much enjoyed reading it as a for-us (and our friends) by-us piece of loving activism excavating and preserving a body of stories in danger of being lost. As such it's a worthy......more

Especially in this day and age, it’s clear we still have a long way to go. This was a fascinating look into the history of what it means to be transgender, the movement (both with the gay acceptance movement and on its own.), and how much more we have to go to true societal acceptance. It was intere......more

I thought this was super informative overall, but I wish it'd been longer. It feels like the author tried to keep this as short as possible which, considering how much history she manages to squeeze in, just made it feel very dense and academic like a textbook. I was also confused by her defining bis......more