<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "African American transgender people."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "African American transgender people."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/sppl/rss/search?query=%22African%20American%20transgender%20people.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:59:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Marsha]]></title><description><![CDATA["Black trans luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQ+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy. Through nearly two decades of research, Tourmaline brings this fabulous, scandalous, essential justice warrior to life in full color, for the first time. This book will take readers into Marsha's childhood as she struggled with gender identity in the 1950s, to her dramatic and essential involvement in the Stonewall Riots and her activism for trans rights through the 70s to the AIDS crisis, and finally, it will explore her mysterious and still unresolved death. Marsha's biography will embody the beauty of deviance. Marsha didn't wait to be freed; she declared herself free and told the world to catch up. Marsha was not merely an activist, she was an artist and a performer, a lover and a mentor, a mischievous and transgressive queen. Marsha honors the fullness of her life and will give this remarkable figure her rightful place in history"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2917166</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2917166</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tourmaline]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2917166138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593185667/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1453618279</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Major Speaks]]></title><description><![CDATA["The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist. Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, New York's jail system, and the HIV/AIDS crisis. For over fifty years, she has been on the front lines of struggles for queer liberation. In this brilliant and moving conversation with Toshio Meronek, she presents a remarkable life -- told with intimacy, warmth, and an irresistable levity -- and a road map for those navigating the challenges Black, brown, queer and trans youth face."--back cover]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2689307</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2689307</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Meronek, Toshio]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2689307138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Conversation With A Black Trans Revolutionary</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781839763342/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1378690347</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Day in June]]></title><description><![CDATA["A vibrant and joyful picture book that celebrates the legacy of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black trans woman and activist who played an instrumental role during the Stonewall Riots that lead to PRIDE month, written by award-winning filmmaker and artist Tourmaline"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2917518</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2917518</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tourmaline]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2917518138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Story Inspired by the Life and Activism of Marsha P. Johnson</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593525371/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1453618706</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The T Is Not Silent]]></title><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2326308</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2326308</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jenkins, Andrea]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2326308138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>New and Selected Poems</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780692578407/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=936186161</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Risk It Takes to Bloom]]></title><description><![CDATA["A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking up for communities on the margins. Born in Augusta, Georgia, to Black Catholic parents, Raquel spent years feeling isolated, even within a loving, close-knit family. There was little access to understanding what it meant to be queer and transgender. It wasn't until she went to the University of Georgia that she found the LGBTQ+ community, fell in love, and explored her gender for the first time. But the unexpected death of her father forced her to examine her relationship with herself and those she loved. These years of grief, misunderstanding, and hard-won epiphanies seeped into the soil of her life, serving as fertilizer for growth and allowing her to bloom within. Upon graduation, Raquel entered a career in journalism against the backdrop of the burgeoning Movement for Black Lives, intersectional feminism going mainstream, and unprecedented visibility of the trans community. After hiding her identity as a newspaper reporter, her increasing awareness of the epidemic of violence plaguing trans women of color and the heightened suicide of trans teens inspired her to come out publicly. Within just a few short years of community organizing in Atlanta, Oakland, and New York, Raquel emerged as one of the most formidable Black trans activists in history. In The Risk It Takes to Bloom, Raquel Willis recounts with passion and candor her experiences straddling the Obama and Trump eras, the possibility of transformation after tragedy, and how complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks and bloom toward collective liberation"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2782790</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2782790</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Willis, Raquel]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2782790138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On Life and Liberation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250275684/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1384445409</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bold World]]></title><description><![CDATA["Jodie Patterson is the mother of five children, including her ten-year-old transgender son Penelope, the catalyst for the author's reexamination of identity within her own dynamic household--and the wider world. This inspiring and highly personal debut memoir goes on to examine Jodie's extended families' African American experiences with racism and civil rights, and her own coming of age in New York City in the 1970s and 80s, and later on as a wife, mother, and activist. With a novelist's sense of artful structure and pacing, Jodie turns her lens on a range of subjects--from the women who raised her and provided strength and comfort, all the while going against cultural norms and gender expectations, to her own children, who acted as a vehicle for Jodie's own growth and ultimately her acceptance of her very diverse family. The result is an exquisite study in transformation, identity, courage, and love"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2454654</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2454654</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, Jodie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2454654138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Family and Transformation</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399179013/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1035463001</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Know What Heaven Looks Like]]></title><description><![CDATA["I Know What Heaven Looks Like: A Modern Day Coming of Age Story is the debut creative nonfiction novel by Lawrence Richardson. This page-turner is beautiful; it's painful; it's shameful; it's faithful; it's real. Whatever your views are on faith and the afterlife, if you've ever felt like you were in a fog and needed hope, this book will wake you up. Comparable to books like Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Stephen Chbosky's The Perks of Being A Wallflower, I know What Heaven Looks Like takes readers on the journey of a lifetime. We meet and fall in love with a precocious child who comes of age enduring challenging circumstances. His ability to leave his former life behind in order to embrace a different reality will inspire even the skeptics to pause. If you ever need a reminder that anything is possible, this is it."--Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2621212</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2621212</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richardson, Lawrence T.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2621212138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Modern Day Coming of Age Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781981512881/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1049711165</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty]]></title><description><![CDATA["By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective-the tropes, the presumptions-Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. "I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body," Brookins writes. "Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female,' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean - to be a girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?" Informed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency-whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as "other""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2879974</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2879974</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[KB]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2879974138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593537145/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1434260568</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lark & Kasim Start A Revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Seventeen-year-old neurodivergent and nonbinary Lark pretends that they are the creator of a viral thread that their ex-best friend, Kasim, accidentally posted onto their Twitter account, declaring his unrequited love, but living a lie takes its toll on Lark, forcing them to deal with their own messy emotions.]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2674467</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2674467</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Callender, Kacen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2674467138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781419756870/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1298881366</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yep, That's My Mommy]]></title><description><![CDATA["Miguel's mommy loves him, just like other mommies love their children. As Miguel learns more about his mommy's experience as a transgender parent, how will he react to children at school who mistakenly call her his "daddy"? This heartwarming story takes you through the seasons with Miguel and his mommy navigating the seemingly small moments in life that can be upsetting. They learn together how a little pride and affirmation can make all the difference when facing life's challenges"-- Publisher's description]]></description><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2673294</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2673294</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mountain, Jean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2673294138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781948529143/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1266897685</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Black Trans Prayer Book]]></title><link>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2585827</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S138C2585827</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://sppl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2585827138</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781678197612/MC.GIF&amp;client=sntpapl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1199092360</image_url></item></channel></rss>