It’s terrifying and disheartening to watch how aggressive the current administration’s attacks have been on trans lives. How many hospitals, even in blue states, even here in Chicago, have stopped gender (and life) affirming treatments to trans youth. Let’s show some love to trans writers, CHIRB style! Here are 5 books by trans writers that are available to pre-order from your local indie bookstore or from our Bookshop.
Thunder Song
Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Forthcoming from Counterpoint (paperback release)
March 4, 2025
“Unapologetically punk, the essays in Thunder Song segue from the miraculous to the mundane, from the spiritual to the physical, as they examine the role of art—in particular music—and community in helping a new generation of indigenous people claim the strength of their heritage while defining their own path in the contemporary world.”
Stag Dance
By Torrey Peters
Forthcoming from Random House
March 11, 2025
“In this collection of one novel and three stories, bestselling author Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing.”
Realistic Fiction
Anton Solomonik
Forthcoming from Littlepuss Press
April 1, 2025
“As if Charlie Chaplin re-wrote the works of Kafka, and he was a Russian trans man, Anton Solomonik brings a funny, heartbreaking, and startlingly unique new voice to contemporary short fiction.”
Dysphoria Mundi
By Paul B. Preciado
Forthcoming from Graywolf Press
April 15, 2025
“With echoes of visionaries such as William S. Burroughs and Kathy Acker, Preciado’s theoretical writing is propelled by lyric power while providing us with a critical toolbox full of new concepts that can guide our thinking and our actions: transition, cognitive emancipation, denormalization, disidentification, “electronic heroin,” digital coups, necro-kitsch. Dysphoria Mundi is Preciado’s most accessible and significant work to date, in which he makes sense of a world in ruins around us and maps a joyous, radical way forward.”
When the Harvest Comes
By Denne Michele Norris
Forthcoming from Random House
April 15, 2025
“In resplendent prose, Denne Michele Norris’s When the Harvest Comes reveals the pain of inheritance and the heroic power of love, reminding us that, in the end, we are more than the men who came before us.”
