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Trans­gen­der Stories

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Nonfiction
Becoming Eve
Abby Stein
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Fiction
The Right Thing to Do at the Time
Dov Zeller
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Nonfiction
The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective
Joy Ladin
Cover of Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders
Nonfiction
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders
Joy Ladin
Cover of What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation
Nonfiction
What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation
Mimi Lemay
Cover of The Shortest Skirt in Shul
Poetry
The Shortest Skirt in Shul
Sass Orol
Cover of Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey
Nonfiction
Once a Girl, Always a Boy: A Family Memoir of a Transgender Journey
Jo Ivester
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Nonfiction
Blood, Marriage, Wine, and Glitter
S. Bear Bergman
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Jewish Text
Salt & Honey: Jewish Teens on Feminism, Creativity, and Tradition
Elizabeth Mandel, Emmanuelle Sippy, Maya Savin Miller, and Michele Lent Hirsch, eds.; Michelle Shapiro Abraham, contrib.
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Nonfiction
A Rainbow Thread: An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969
Noam Sienna
Cover of All My Mother’s Lovers
Fiction
All My Mother’s Lovers
Ilana Masad
Cover of Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature
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Trans Talmud: Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature
Max K. Strassfeld
Cover of A Shot in the Dark
Fiction
A Shot in the Dark
Victoria Lee

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