This guide highlights Dickinson library resources, including books, films, and databases, for expanding our understanding of social justice issues, so that we can combat discrimination in all its forms. You can discover more resources on the library website. If you would like help finding additional information sources, or if you wish to recommend additional resources, please contact a librarian for assistance.
Resources
- LGBTQ ServicesThe Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Services works to create a welcoming, safe, inclusive, and equitable environment for LGBTQQIAA+ members of the Dickinson community.
- Resources at DickinsonResources for LGBTQ+ individuals and allies at Dickinson.
- Local and Regional ResourcesResources available to LGBTQ+ individuals and allies in the Carlisle area.
Databases
- Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window Access citations and some full text articles from alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. This index is international in scope with its central focus on socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Coverage: 1969 to present. Some full text.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new window Explore the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgender community, and the changes in gender roles over the years. This collection includes scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and reports from government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Coverage: 1970 to present. Mostly full text.
- LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window Access scholarly and popular publications covering lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. Disciplines covered include civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, politics, psychology, religion, and sociology. This collection includes an LGBTQ+ thesaurus for enhanced searching. Coverage: 1951 to present. Full text.
- LGBT Studies in Video This link opens in a new window View streaming films of documentaries, interviews, archival footage and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture, civil rights, and other issues. This collection is part of AVON: Academic Video Online, but may be searched separately. It may be used for on-campus showings by student groups and co-curricular programs for which no admission is charged. Coverage: 1970-2019, contains primary sources. Full text.
- Archives of Sexuality and Gender This link opens in a new window Access meeting minutes, administrative records, publications, private correspondence, photographs, internal United States government memoranda, international archival documents, and more to illuminate the experiences of LGBTQ individuals. Materials come from major international activist organizations as well as local, grassroots groups. This collection is cross-searchable with other collections via Gale Primary Sources. Coverage: contains primary sources. A portion of this purchase was a gift of the Mary Moser Memorial Library Fund.
- Digital Transgender Archive Contains historical materials and information about transgender history. Includes newsletters, magazines, zines, photos, court documents, oral histories, and more. Contains documents, etc. from 1500-present.
- LGBTQ+ Studies Web Archive (Library of Congress) An archive of web sites that document LGBTQ+ history, scholarship, and culture in the U.S. and around the world. Includes websites from nonprofit organizations, the news, and more. Contains primary sources. Coverage: May 2018-present. Full text.
- OutHistory.org Online collection of primary sources and contextual articles
Additional Reading
Trans Health & Wellness
The Pride Guide: A guide to sexual and social health for LGBTQ youth by Call Number: HQ76.27 .Y68 L36 2018Publication Date: 2018
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves by Call Number: HQ77.9 .T714 2014 and Available OnlinePublication Date: 2014
Trans and Non-Binary Gender Healthcare for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and Other Health Professionals by
People who are not content to remain the gender they were assigned at birth have existed throughout human history and in all recorded cultures (Herdt, 1996). Naturally the experiences of people in the contemporary high-income cultures which are the focus of this book will be informed by the understandings and technology available now, but fundamentally gender diversity is not a new phenomenon.
Call Number: RA564.9.T73 R53 2021ISBN: 9781108703024Publication Date: 2020-08-27
Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender by
Using historical documents, interviews with physicians and therapists, and observations of health conferences, Trans Medicine offers a rare opportunity to understand how providers make decisions given widespread uncertainty while facing challenges to their expertise. In the process of negotiating these challenges in the "treatment" of gender, providers have acquired authority not only in this medical area, but over gender itself.
Call Number: RA564.9.T73 S48 2021Publication Date: 2021-06-15
Films
Real Boy: A Son’s Transition. A Mom's TransformationCall Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2016
Changing the Game by
Transgender high school athletes from across the country compete at the top of their fields, while also challenging the boundaries and perceptions of fairness and discrimination.
Call Number: DVD8405
Nonfiction Books
Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781479858088Publication Date: 2018
Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights by Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020
Trans People in Higher Education by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781438472751Publication Date: 2019
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by
Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance.
Call Number: HQ77.9 .H49 2022bISBN: 9781541603080Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad by
This manuscript productively joins affect theory and trans studies to examine how narratives around gender transition actually reinforce racial and gender hegemonies. Malatino notes that trans structures of feeling are ofted coded as negative, on both sides of the transition... When a trans person wants to transition, discourses around negativity, such as childhood trauma and the "wrong body". Post-transition, the lives of trans people, especially trans people of color, are seen as victims of a violent society. Malatino's manuscript works slowly through the negative affect that so often shapes trans lives to consider its productive dimensions, where negativity is key to enabling trans survival and flourishing.
Call Number: HQ77.9 .M25 2022Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Productin and the Politics of Visibility by
The increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical. Trans visibility is touted as a sign of a liberal society, but it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence against trans people (especially trans women of color) and by the suppression of trans rights under civil law. 'Trap Door' grapples with these contradictions. The essays, conversations, and dossiers gathered here delve into themes as wide-ranging yet interconnected as beauty, performativity, activism, and police brutality. Collectively, they attest to how trans people are frequently offered "doors"--Entrances to visibility and recognition -- that are actually "traps," accommodating trans bodies and communities only insofar as they cooperate with dominant norms. The volume speculates about a third term, perhaps uniquely suited for our time: the trapdoor, neither entrance nor exit, but a secret passageway leading elsewhere.
Call Number: NX650 .G44 T73 2017Publication Date: 2017-12-15
Biography / Memoir
Redefining Realness: my path to womanhood, identity, love & so much more Creator by Call Number: HQ77.8 .M63 A3 2014Publication Date: 2014
Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place: A Transgender Memoir by
An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties.
Call Number: HQ77.8.B57 B57 2020Publication Date: 2020-08-04
This Body I Wore: A Memoir by
A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself.
Call Number: HQ77.8.G34 G64 2022Publication Date: 2022-05-24
Fiction
The Four Profound Weaves by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781616963347Publication Date: 2020-09-01
LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781946684929Publication Date: 2019-04-01
My Life As a Diamond by Call Number: Available OnlineISBN: 9781459818316Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Call Number: PR9199.4.P578 L58 2019ISBN: 9780994047199Publication Date: 2019-09-30
The House of Impossible Beauties by
A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 80s and 90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary "Paris is Burning".
Call Number: PS3603 .A86822 H68 2018ISBN: 9780062676979Publication Date: 2018-02-06
Dead Collections by
When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the "vampire disease." Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job.
Call Number: PS3606.E38848 D43 2022ISBN: 9780143136910Publication Date: 2022-02-22
The Thirty Names of Night by
Five years after a suspicious fire killed his ornithologist mother, a closeted Syrian American trans boy sheds his birth name and searches for a new one.
Call Number: PS3610.O67925 T45 2021Publication Date: 2021-07-13
The Memory Librarian by Call Number: PS3613.O52266 M46 2022ISBN: 9780063070875Publication Date: 2022-04-19
Sorrowland by
Vern escapes the religious compound where she was raised and gives birth to twins in the forest, raising them away from the influence of the outside world. Her community won't let her go that easily, however, and as they pursue, she breaks the boundaries of humanity, changing her body in uncanny ways in order to protect her family.
Call Number: PS3619.O43724 S67 2022ISBN: 9781250849267Publication Date: 2022-05-03
Melissa (George) by Call Number: PZ7.1.G567 Geo 2018
Comics
Gender Queer: a Memoir by Call Number: PN6727.K648 G46 2019ISBN: 9781549304002Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Marvel's Voices: Pride by Call Number: PN6726 .M274 2022ISBN: 9781302933692Publication Date: 2022-06-21
Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer & Trans Resistance by
A visually stunning graphic non-fiction book on queer and trans resistance. Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied and challenged those who have historically opposed them. Through bold, symbolic imagery and surrealist, overlapping landscapes, queer illustrator and curator Syan Rose shines a light on the faces and voices of these diverse, amorphous, messy, real, and imagined queer and trans communities. In their own words, queer and trans organizers, artists, healers, comrades, and leaders speak honestly and authentically about their own experiences with power, love, pain, and magic to create a textured and nuanced portrait of queer and trans realities in America.
Call Number: HQ76.5 .R67 2021Publication Date: 2021-04-06
