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A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture ""A breathtaking archive of our community ... An absolute vital work for a precipitous time."" -Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix ""Searing, witty, critical and defiant ... It feels just as pressing now as it did in the early 1990s. ... The pages of Gendertrash are filled with poems, essays, rants, fictions, speeches, surveys, interviews, resource lists and personal ads-largely for and by trans people, against the straight establishment, as well as the cis gay and lesbian movement, who were only too happy to throw trans people under the bus in order to gain rights for themselves. Sound familiar?""-Xtra In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going ""stealth,"" began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and prisoners; they printed collages, soap operas and polemics; they ran regular sections with titles like ""Trannies Speak Out"" and ""Hooker of the Month"". They redefined transsexual culture forever, and their explosive ideas resonate deeply today. Remastered from the original layouts, this foundational work is now available in book form for the first time, including previously-unseen drafts from the unfinished fifth issue and essays by Trish Salah and Leah Tigers. Irreverent, furious, reckless, sexy, hilarious and incisive, Gendertrash from Hell is here to set all your presuppositions on fire.

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""There is an alternate history of what we now call trans studies, trans culture, trans literature, one that is not USian and monolingual in its origin stories and normative framework, one that begins rooted in sex worker, racialized, Indigenous and street active transsexual and transgender peoples communities, one that is not ""queer paradigmed"" in its frame, or oriented towards respectability or institutional legitimation."" --Trish Salah, Lambda Award-winning author of Wanting in Arabic and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1 ""You're doing a print edition of Gendertrash from Hell?! I've been hoping for something like this for years!"" --Alice Stoehr, The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) ""Gender's back in town, baby!"" --Lou Barcott, Myopic Books (Chicago, IL) ""Wait, are you serious? Oh dude, this is so big. The era of passing around that one Xanthra Phillippa poem out of context on Insta stories is over. The girls are going to learn ... genetics on notice!"" --Joyce Laurie, Editor of Picnic magazine ""Who knew, back in the early 1990s, that trans people could love one another like this?"" --Leah Tigers

""There is an alternate history of what we now call trans studies, trans culture, trans literature, one that is not USian and monolingual in its origin stories and normative framework, one that begins rooted in sex worker, racialized, Indigenous and street active transsexual and transgender peoples communities, one that is not ""queer paradigmed"" in its frame, or oriented towards respectability or institutional legitimation."" --Trish Salah, Lambda Award-winning author of Wanting in Arabic and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1 ""Thank the Goddexx for Gendertrash and its far-reaching vision, uncompromised ethos, its lust for sharing and also for lust, its wildness and its crucial, lived knowledge. A perfect, angry, art community in a zine; a deeply necessary collection, then and now and always."" --Michelle Tea, Lambda Award-winning author of Valencia and Black Wave ""You're doing a print edition of Gendertrash from Hell?! I've been hoping for something like this for years!"" --Alice Stoehr, The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN) ""Gender's back in town, baby!"" --Lou Barcott, Myopic Books (Chicago, IL) ""Wait, are you serious? Oh dude, this is so big. The era of passing around that one Xanthra Phillippa poem out of context on Insta stories is over. The girls are going to learn ... genetics on notice!"" --Joyce Laurie, Editor of Picnic magazine ""It's a dream come true to be able to hold Gendertrash, after years with the PDF. What a gift to trans life. If theory mutilates and surgery liberates, Gendertrash has always been a scalpel."" --Saul Freedman-Lawson, Another Story Bookshop (Toronto, ON) ""Who knew, back in the early 1990s, that trans people could love one another like this?"" --Leah Tigers, historian, trickymothernature.com

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Mirha-Soleil Ross is a legendary trans activist and performer. She was the editor of Gendertrash From Hell, the organizer of the first ever trans film festival Counting Past Two, and the creator of multiple one-woman performances including ""Yapping Out Loud: Confessions of an Unrepentant Whore"". Her work since the early 1990s in Montreal and Toronto has focused on transsexual rights, access to resources, advocacy for sex workers and animal rights.

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