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LBGT Resource Center Library
We have quite a few books, magazines, reports, videos and various training
materials in the Office. Our book collection is indexed on
LibraryThing,
which you can browse online.
Recent additions to the Center library
- Whipping Girl: a Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity,
by Julia Serano, 2007, Seal Press. This is the
one that everyone's talking about!
- Katherine's Diary: the story of a transsexual, (2nd edition) by
Katherine Cummings, 2007, Beaujon Press.
- Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers,
Cris Beam, 2007.
- Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other
Outlaws, Kate Bornstein (forword by Sara Quin), 2006.
The following magazines tend to show up in the Center on a regular basis:
- Advocate -
national gay & lesbian newsmagazine
- Bitch -
"feminist response to pop culture"
- Curve -
lesbian magazine that's pretty good about being trans inclusive
- Lesbian Connection -
(we receive 5-6 copies of each issue)
- Other -
"pop culture and politics for the new outcast"
- Shameless - "for girls who get it"
A few of the videos in our collection are:
- Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, " the
definitive film biography of Bayard Rustin, one of the most controversial
figures of the Civil Rights Movement," VHS
- Hermaphrodites Speak! "meet Angela, David, Heidi, Tom, Mani,
Cheryl, Max and Hida as they tell their stories of growing up intersexed,"
(ISNA) VHS
- Yellow for Hermaphrodites: Mani's Story,
traces the life of the intersex activist Mani Mitchell,
from Hermaphrodites Speak! (ISNA) DVD
- Intersex: Redefining Sex, a half-hour documentary on medical management
of children with ambiguous sex anatomy (ISNA) VHS
- TRANS Generation,
"four college students switching more than their majors," DVD
A sampling of other material:
- A Human Rights Investigation into the Medical "Normalization" of
Intersex People, a report of a public hearing by the Human Rights Commission
of the City & County of San Francisco
- The Research Supplement for The Uninvited Dilemma: A Question of Gender,
by Kim Elizabeth Stuart
- Proceedings of the third, fourth and fifth International Conferences on Transgender
Law and Employment Policy, 1994, 1995, 1996
- Teaching Intersex Issues, ISNA speaker's handbook
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