Pride Month | Reading List
The revolutions of the queer future beckon.
The UK Supreme Court has ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex and that the concept of sex is binary. And in 2025 alone, 100 anti-trans bills have been passed in the US attempting to block trans people’s right to exist in public.
But every attempt to legislate how the world ought to be by pretending to innocently describe its normative rules will fail to deliver, as all idealizations do in their overconfidence.
Trans misogyny is highly compatible with right-wing authoritarian politics because it aims to preserve, or entrench, existing social hierarchies through the production of an imagined threat from those with the least demonstrated power, demanding violence to put them down.
As Juliana Gleeson states in Hermaphrodite Logic: “sex makes a fool of those who wish to treat it strictly.”
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Further Reading & Listening:
The Verso Book Club Podcast: Jules Gill-Peterson sits down with Eleanor Penny to discuss the history of trans misogyny.
"Y'all Better Quiet Down." Jules Gill-Peterson reflects upon Sylvia Rivera's infamous speech at the 1973 Christopher Street Liberation Day commemoration.
A letter to Cybele: McKenzie Wark's letter to the goddess of thresholds, transitions, and street raves.
