Introduction / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman -- Part I. Do I look like an outlaw to you? We're all someone
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Table of contents :
Introduction / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman --
Part I. Do I look like an outlaw to you? We're all someone's freak / Gwendolyn Ann Smith --
Trans-corporation: a benefit analysis of a transgender man in a corporate setting / CT Whitley --
A slacker and delinquent in basketball shoes / Raquel (Lucas) Platero Méndez --
The old folks at home / Janet Hardy --
Dear Austin special needs bathroom / StormMiguel Florez --
Identity, schmidentity / Telyn Kusalik --
Letting my light out / Leona Lo --
Imposter / Quince Mountain --
Jihad / Azadeh Arsanjani --
Are you a boy or a girl? / Roe-Anne Alexander --
Part II. Being reconfigurated is not the same as being reimagined. The big reveal / Sherilyn Connelly --
The wrong body / Scott Turner Schofield --
Performance piece / Julia Serano --
The perfect storm / Sam Peterson --
A drag queen born in a female body / Adrian Dalton --
Dual citizenship / Ahimsa Timoteo Badhran --
Trans-ing gender: the surgical option / Mercedes Allen --
I am the I / Sean Saifa Wall --
Make me a vessel for anomaly / Simon Iris --
I am transreal: a reflection on/of becoming Dragon / Micha Cardenas --
Taking up space / Kyle Lukoff --
Transliteration / Fransisco Fernandez --
Part III. Which is why I'm as cute as I happen to be. Daddy gets the big piece of chicken / Fran Varian --
On living well and coming free / Ryka Aoki --
Faygele / Dane Kuttler --
The secret life of my wiener / Cory Schmanke Parrish --
In our skin / A.P. Andre and Luis Gutierrez-Mock --
Glitter, glitter, on the wall, who's the queerest of them all? / Esm? Rodriguez --
Transfag robot manifesto / Sam Orchard --
Transcension / Katie Diamond and Johnny Blazes --
Intermission / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman --
Part IV. It might not be a picnic, but there's a great buffet. The manly art of pregnancy / J. Wallace --
Transgressing gender at Passover with Jesus! / Peterson Toscano --
Today's new name may be tomorrow's old / Sassafras Lowrey --
Calling for the recognition of self-love as a legitimate relationship in the game of life / Andrea Jenkins --
Why you don't have to choose a white boy name to be a man in this world / Kenji Tokawa --
Talk Derby to me / Uzi Sioux --
Seeworthy / E.S. Weistbrot --
Part V. And still we rise. Marsha P. Johnson: ten suns the transformer / Tamiko Beyer --
She-male rising / Shawna Virago --
Princess / Christine Smith --
Shot, stabbed, choked, strangled, broken: a ritual for November 20th / Roz Kaveney --
Proof / Bo Luengsuraswat --
The voice / Joy Ladin --
The role of culture in cleansing gender outlaws: the Lamal Ceremony of the Maasai, Kenya / Judy Wawira Gichoya and Priscilla Maina --
Shooting s(t)ar / Amir Rabiyah --
Pilgrimage / Zev Al-Walid --
Cisgender privilege: on the privileges of performing normative gender / Evin Taylor --
Epilogue / Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman.