Book
Spectrums : autistic transgender people in their own words
Publication Information
London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020.
Physical Description
235 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
"This is an edited collection of human stories from trans autistic writers. The stories collected in this anthology address the struggles and joys of living at the intersection of neurodivergence and gender divergence with personal insight and nuance. They explore the positives of deep self-knowledge, belonging to a community and living a life in tune with one's inner being. They also address common struggles such as suicide, homelessness, and barriers to adequate healthcare. These are human narratives: lives filled with pain and pleasure, accomplishments and setbacks. The flesh-and-blood realities of the contributors' lives goes beyond the story told by statistics and research on the subject"--
Contents
- Introduction / Maxfield Sparrow (they/them/their)
- My Body / Joelle Smith (she/her/hers)
- I'm Just Me / Ben James (he/him/his)
- Lifting the Burden / Drake Keeper (they/them/theirs)
- The Queer Phoenix / Maxx Crow (he/him/his or they/them/their)
- Bodies with Purpose / Gil Goletski (they/them/theirs)
- My Journey as a Transgender Woman with Autism / Elizabeth K. Graham (she/her/hers)
- Face the Strange / Dan Ackerman (they/them/theirs)
- Ableism in Poetry / Kaiden Cole Wilde (he/him/his)
- The Realest Parts of Me / Devin S. Turk (he/him/his or they/them/theirs)
- Neuroccino / Nathaniel Glanzman (he/him/his)
- My Gender Is Yenn : A Coming Out Story / Yenn Purkis (they/them/their)
- A Letter to My Parents / Qwyrdo (they/them/their or ze/zer/zers)
- I'm trans and autistic, and yes (for me), they're related / endever* corbin (they/them/their or xe/xem/xyr)
- Evolving H / H A Clarke (xe/xem/xyr or they/them/their)
- The Power of Perspective / Megan Talbot (she/her/hers)
- Half a Century of Winging It / Heather Rowan Nichol (they/them/theirs)
- Five Poems / Jan (they/them/theirs)
- What I Wish I'd Known / Chris Breedt (they/them/their or he/him/his)
- Late to the Party / Hayden James (he/him/his)
- The Rightness of Being Wrong / Baden Gaeke Franz (they/them/theirs)
- Finding Validity at Work / Kevvie Vida (she/her/hers)
- Reflections / HDG (she/her/hers or they/them/theirs)
- Definitions / James J Myers (he/him/his or they/them/theirs)
- A Transtistic Evolution / Jordan (they/them/theirs or he/him/his)
- My Path of Life / Elie B (they/them/their)
- Autistic, Non-binary, and Still Learning / Alyssa Hillary (they/them/their)
- Remember the Time / V. Mike Roberts (he/him/his)
- a letter to a friend / ren koloni (they/them/their or it/it/its)
- Gender Epiphany / Eryn Star (any pronouns)
- The Girlhood That Wasn't Mine (The Spaces I Cannot Enter) / Kit Mead (they/them/their)
- Finding Myself : In Parallel / Andren Copass (he/him/his or they/them/their)
- Steps to an Identity / Rae Kersley (they/them/their)
- So Typical, Yet So Atypical / Kerry Chin (he/him/his)
- A Plea of Things I Would Like You to Know / Shannon Shannon (Shannon/Shannon/Shannon's)
- One Step at a Time / Lee N (they/them/their)
- On Finding Yourself in Someone Else / Noor Pervez (he/him/his)
- Meetings and Partings / Heather Rowan Nicol (they/them/their).