By Sofie Athanasia Tsatas, Senior Reference Assistant & Cataloguing Editor at the Marvin Duchow Music Library
Join us in celebrating Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31) with library resources! Every year, the Trans Rights Readathon (March 21-31), a social media initiative founded by author Sim Kern, encourages readers to read, amplify, and promote books in support of Transgender Day of Visibility.
At McGill, we are celebrating this initiative by highlighting some of the amazing books in our Libraries collection that feature trans, gender-nonconforming, 2Spirit, and nonbinary authors and/or characters.
Discover titles in our library catalogue and below.
- AfroTrans: perspectives, entretiens, poésie, fiction by Michaëla Danjé
- Always the Almost by Edward Underhill
- Bellies by Nicola Dinan
- Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
- Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
- Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
- Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass
- Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
- Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
- Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon
- Horse Barbie by Geena Rocero
- Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
- Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
- Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story by Jacob Tobia
- The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Learn more about the readathon on Instagram @transrightsreadathon, discover graphics and resources for participants (like a Storygraph challenge,) and join the conversation with these hashtags: #TransRightsReadathon #TRR25.
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