I could not be more proud to tell you that Sheer Spite’s first publication is out now, if you haven’t already seen! And it’s two books in one?!?!?!
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.
Here’s everything else we have in the distro too, btw:
- A Self Defense Study Guide for Trans Women and Gender Non-Conforming / Nonbinary AMAB Folks – TransFighters Oakland
- Against Competition – Marc Fischer, illustrations by Kione Kochi
- Becoming Political: Finding Possibility Within Community – Christina Tran & the field team of APANO
- Beyond “Don’t Quit Your Day Job!” – The Benefits and Perils of Turning Art Into Your Job – Christina Tran
- Beyond “Don’t Work for Free!”: Tips on how to protect yourself as an artist and honor your creative gifts – Christina Tran
- First Protocols of Queer Goetia – Contagion Press (just added today!)
- Fish-Ins & Black/Native Solidarity in the 1960s – Mariame Kaba with illustrations by Jon Bailiff
- Five Friendship Fantasies
- LIKE THIS: A workbook on sex, desire, boundaries, and logistics
- Make Your Own Fun – Kristyna Baczynski
- MOM UPDATES – Bruce George Wingate / Public Collectors
- PALS: The Radical Possibilities of Friendship
- Reclaim Your Sh*t! Water. Beyond Value – Sarah Poppy Jackson; illustrations by Kione Kochi
- Revolution as an Eternal Dream: the Exemplary Failure of the Madame Binh Graphics Collective – Mary Patten
- Summer Shade – a magical trans novella
- Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels Like
- Towards A Self Sustaining Publishing Model – Marc Fischer Public Collectors
- What Problems Can Artist Publishers Solve? – Temporary Services with PrintRoom
- Yes I’m Flagging – Archie Bongiovanni
all my love,
lee, sheer spite
xoxoxoxoxo
