"When we ignore the calling, when we ignore the truth, when we ignore our experience of ourselves of somehow mysteriously transcending the binary gender system, a deep psychological and spiritual wound is inflicted." ------St.Claire
“Like dogs chasing our own tails, We are bedeviled by the ‘why’ question, which conjures up its twin, the devilish ‘how’, how to change. The pursuit of happiness becomes the pursuit of answers to the wrong questions.”
--—James Hillman
Reading for Healing
True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism for Families, Friends, Coworkers, and Helping Professionals by Mildred Brown and Chloe Ann Rounsley.
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Pat Califia.
Body Guards: the Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity edited by Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub.
Trans Gender Liberation by Leslie Feinberg.
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul by Leslie Feinberg.
Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety by Marjorie Garber.
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman.
Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender by Bernice Hausman.
The Mythology of transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor by Jamake Highwater.
Healing Fiction by James Hillman.
The Souls Code: In Search of Character and Calling by James Hillman.
The Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Transgender Issue, Volume 4, Number 2, 1998.
Lesbians and Lesbianisms: A Post-Jungian Perspective by Claudette Kulkarni.
Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality by Jay Prosser.
PomoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender And Sexuality by Carol Queen and Lawrence Schimel.
Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America by Will Roscoe.
The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation by Edward Stein.
Jung’s Map of the Soul by Murray Stein.
The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams.
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender by Riki Anne Wilchins.