Sexuality Happens

After several conversations with friends at graduate programs around the country in various fields (social work, sexuality, medical school, etc), I’ve realized that there is an extreme dearth of information available in some of these programs about certain issues/terms/distinctions/privileges, etc from the queer and trans communities.  

Examples:

*My friend presented to her graduating social work class about cisgender privilege.  Her professor didn’t even know the meaning of the word.

*In my graduate program, I felt like a broken record trying to talk about pronoun preference, gender neutral pronouns, etc.

*Another friend is in medical school. She’s almost done, and neither the subjects of “partner” vs. husband/wife OR  transgender ANYTHING as been brought up, none the less talked about/discussed.

Ergo, I’ve decided to create a resource list of books (and websites too, but especially books) to provide to graduate (and undergraduate if they’d like) programs on these subjects. I mean, it’s ok if not everyone in the world has read Julia Serano’s Whipping Girl, but many people don’t even know about it, and it has some ground breaking information and thoughts within it. People should be able to find this information easily.

Obviously, I don’t know all the books out there. Wish I did. So I’m asking my friends to help.  Please either post here, or email me at essinem at gmail dot com with your suggestions for inclusions to the list. Also, please feel free to forward/repost as well.

I will definitely post the list when I have it “done” but also hope that it will be morpheous and people can continue to add to it.

-Essin’ Em