Transgender History: A LOVE STORY
James Rose Dewitt
2014 CE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
One paper sheet folded to 14 pages, ink
HQ77.9 .D495 2015 zines
Using collages of images and text, Transgender History relates four stories of trans existence and resistance across time, ranging from the nineteenth-century riots of the Daughters of Rebecca to Leslie Feinberg’s and Laverne Cox’s efforts to draw media attention to the unjust incarceration of CeCe “Honey Bea” McDonald. Part of a larger project called Sex Ed: A Love Story, this zine is one of eighteen that frames facts from trans and gender-nonconforming history with personal stories from Dewitt’s own experience. With this work, Dewitt aims to “broaden our shared understanding of bodies, love, desire, gender, and sex.”
Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie