To Read
Find our physical book displays on Level 5 of Northampton Square Library, and at the Law Library at the Clerkenwell and Moorgate campus.
Those at the Tooting Campus can find some great options including Katy Lees’ The trans guide to mental health and well-being, Not just a tomboy which is a fantastic memoir about what it was like growing up as someone who is a trans man, and the iconic Who’s afraid of gender? by Judith Butler.
For your on-the-go reading there are plenty of options on Libby. Read essay collections including Spectrums edited by Maxfield Sparrow and Black on Both Sides by C. Riley Snorton. Fiction offerings include Stag Dance by Torrey Peters and Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin.
To Watch
The BFI features diverse voices exploring transgender lives across various time periods. Follow transgender pioneer April Ashley and other influential figures as they discuss what it means to be transgender in the 1980s in the documentary What Am I?. Dr XYZ: A Medical Drag Transthology plays on the NHS training films of the 1960s and 70s and it discusses the critical state of transgender healthcare in the UK through ‘medical drag’ re-enactments. Explore a pick from the Too Desi Too Queer collection with Wajood, a romance film about a young trans girl who falls in love with an auto-rickshaw driver and the pressures imposed by the elders in her community. Want more options from the BFI? Head over to the search bar and find more amazing short and feature films!
Head over to Kanopy to catch plenty of great options. Some highlights include Afuera, which is a short film about a young woman and the intersection of her transgender and immigrant identities, Treasure: Hate Crimes Against the Transgender Community, a documentary about Shelly “Treasure” Hillard has a poignant and pertinent message about the violence trans women face in their lives and how they are failed by society’s systems, and Happy Birthday, Marsha!, a film about the iconic transgender artist and activist in the hours before the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City.