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Gender Outlaws
The Next Generation
344 pages
A radical, polyvocal chorus that dismantles the gender binary and builds a joyful, expansive world in its place.
What it feels like
Reading this anthology feels like walking into a crowded, buzzing room filled with your most brilliant, radical, and fiercely loving queer elders and peers. The pace is steady, inviting you to linger over individual essays, comics, and poems that range in tone from righteously angry to laugh-out-loud funny. It is a deeply communal reading experience, steeped in an empowering and expansive mood that refuses to apologize for existing outside the binary. The prose shifts beautifully from sharp, academic critique to raw, conversational storytelling, reflecting the beautiful multiplicity of the trans experience. It will absolutely delight readers who crave intersectional, forward-thinking perspectives on gender, offering a triumphant emotional journey that moves from the friction of societal marginalization into the warm, defiant glow of self-determination and queer kinship.
- Mood
- empowering
- expansive
- communal
- revolutionary
- Tone
- defiant
- celebratory
- earnest
- radical
- conversational
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- gender self-determination · dismantling binaries · queer kinship · bodily autonomy · radical joy
- The writing
- A vibrant, polyvocal mix of academic critique, raw personal narrative, and sharp, witty observation.
- The arc
- Moves from the friction of societal constraints into a triumphant, expansive celebration of self-defined identity.
- Who it's for
- Readers seeking a diverse, intersectional chorus of trans and genderqueer voices that challenge the status quo with both intellect and heart.
Content notes
- transphobia
- gender dysphoria
- medical gatekeeping
- systemic violence
About the book
Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers.
Description from Open Library.
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