Here is a list of resources that we encountered when researching trans issues for the project. Included are scholarly materials that provide insight into conversations about trans issues, links to helpful articles, and organizations that offer support for those in the trans community.

Local or Regional Organizations

Here are some local organizations that we came across in our early stages of finding interview subjects.

• Transcend Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina)
• T Time (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina)
• SAGE and PRIDE (on-campus organizations at Coastal Carolina University)
• We are Family (Charleston, South Carolina)
• SONG (Atlanta, Georgia)

Project Bibliography

Some of the resources we looked to in our early stages to figure out how to shape the project.

• Transgender Lives: Your Stories
• The Tretter Transgender Oral History Project
• Aravani Art Project
• “On Being Transgender in the Deep South”
• The Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project

Academic Readings

Some of the scholarly readings we did in order to give the project a critical framework through which to view transness and identity.

• decolonizing trans/gender,  b. binaohan
• “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”, Gloria Anzaldua
• “The Pharmaco-Pornographic Regime: Sex, Gender, and Subjectivity in the Age of Punk Capitalism”, Beatriz Preciado
• “The Trans*-ness of Blackness, the Blackness of Trans*-ness”, Marquis Bey
• The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M.