March 31 is Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s easy to be unsure of how to celebrate that: trans people know that visibility isn’t always safe, and cisgender allies may wonder if there’s any appropriate way to respond. Wonder no more, because Florence Ashley, author of Gender/Fucking, has a great suggestion: buy some books by trans authors or artists or publishers!
Here are some books we published, and a couple from other places in the Publication Studio network, and yet another from ECU Press:
- Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto by Simon(e) van Saarloos, from ECU Press (designed, edited, bound, and mostly printed at PS Vancouver) — a rigorous and bold exploration of age discrimination in a queer context, which you can get an idea of by watching the discussion from the book launch at Libby Leshgold Gallery, here
- Simon(e)’s other titles from Publication Studio, Playing Monogamy and Take ‘Em Down: Scattered Monuments and Queer Forgetting
- Oliver Coran’s Strip Club Book for Leah Jolie, including Oliver’s gorgeous photos of masc strippers, and two stories, one by Oliver and one by Kevin Killian
- The book we made with Hazel Jane Plante last summer, Songs of Love, Death, and Pleasure, a songbook in an intensely coloured cover, which is partly a companion to her novel Any Other City, from Arsenal Pulp Press
- One of of first titles, How to Look at a Vancouver Special, by Kay Higgins, published back in 2010. An added bonus: most of these books were made with Kay’s own queer hands!