Black on Both Sides

This book belongs in FemRes because it places trans life, queer politics, and feminist questions on the same map instead of treating trans experience as a “special issue” outside feminism. For readers, it helps explain how gender systems work through medicine, law, family, race, class, colonialism, media visibility, and everyday care. It is foundational because it refuses to separate the history of transness from the production of race and from the archive of Black survival.

It is especially useful alongside FemRes topics on Trans Feminism, Queer Theory, Bodily Autonomy, Gender Diversity, Intersectional Feminism, and Social Movements.