Sheer Spite’s first title is two books in one!

Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary To Trans Punk // Crossdresser: Growing Up Trans In The 1990s And 2000s

Imogen Reid’s Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary to Trans Punk travels from small-town Northern Ontario, to the Missionary Training Centre in Provo, Utah, to basement shows in Ottawa. It’s a story about staying stubbornly human in a world that wants to destroy you, and also about how weird it is going door-to-door trying to convert people to Mormonism.

Crossdresser: Growing Up Trans in the 1990s and 2000s, by Kat Rogue, explores what it does to a closeted trans girl to grow up saturated in the transmisogyny of 1990s pop culture and to come of age online, and how she managed to build her own relationship to femininity despite that. It argues that crossdressing, femme, and transness are more closely linked than some people think, and that Ace Ventura: Pet Detective really could have been great without all the transmisogyny.

The books are published back-to-back for a double gut-punch of heartfelt, angry, and funny reflections on transfemme coming of age.

Accept Yourself Or Die: From Mormon Missionary To Trans Punk is 49 pages.

Crossdresser: Growing Up Trans In The 1990s And 2000s is 52 pages.

ISBN 978-1-7753304-1-7

You’ll receive download links for each book in PDF and ePub. If another format works better for you, let me know and I’ll see what I can do!

When you buy a digital zine, I ask that you think of it in the same way as buying a print copy, meaning that you use it pretty much just for personal use. I’m happy for you to print out a copy for your own use or to share with a friend, but please don’t share or distribute either print or PDF versions more broadly, including by posting the PDF online. If you’re interested in sharing it with a group, just get in touch and we’ll figure it out.

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Crossdresser // Accept Yourself Or Die – Kat Rogue + Imogen Reid – Digital