Towards a Queer Literary History of Gender Identity: Steampunk, Gender Nonconformity, & Victorian Studies (University of Waterloo, 23 October 2015)

University of Waterloo faculty and students, thank you all for lovely visit and a great discussion about steampunk, gender nonconformity, and Victorian studies!

Below you will find the slides from my talk and a few links for further reading. Please feel free to contact me if you have any follow-up questions.

Further Reading

Steampunk
If you’d like to find out more about steampunk, take a look at my introduction to the subculture and literary genre: A Brief General Introduction to Steampunk Literature & Culture. This introduction includes music, short films, and starter reading list.

Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan Series
This young-adult series is widely available in variety of formats and languages.

• The Leviathan page on Scott Westerfeld’s website: http://scottwesterfeld.com/books/leviathan/
• Keith Thompson, illustrator of the series: http://www.keiththompsonart.com/
• The Leviathan Wiki: http://leviathanscottwesterfeld.wikia.com/

Transgender Studies
In terms of welcoming transgender people in academic spaces, I encourage folks to check out this post that I wrote for Inside Higher Ed: “Welcoming Trans Academics in the Workplace and at Conferences.”

For further reading, I include the lists below of popular and academic texts, and texts that blur the boundaries between these categories. These lists are meant as starting points for exploring this very diverse field and should not be considered exhaustive by any means.

Presses and Journals

• Biyuti Publishing
• Topside Press
• TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

Books

• Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman
• My New Gender Workbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition by Kate Bornstein
• Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits by Loren Cameron
• One in Every Crowd by Ivan E. Coyote
• Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti
• Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives by Nia King
• Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano
• Transgender History by Susan Stryker