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Francisco Pelsaert, during his visit to the Mughal court as a Dutch merchant in the seventeenth century, took notes on the prestige and power enjoyed by the third gender, or eunuchs, in the imperial household. “They can get whatever they desire- fine…

In ancient China (until the Sui Dynasty), castration was one of the Five Punishments, a series for physical punishments meted out by the Chinese penal system.
Paper, one of the Four Great Inventions, is said to have been invented during the Eastern…

Onyx: Black Lesbian Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 5
October/November Issue, 1984
San Francisco Bay Area

New York Trans Oral History Project
Interviewed by Nadia Awad
Summary by Boyda Johnstone

This is a not what you might imagine novel by and about a black transwoman.https://www.ladydanefe.com/yemayasdaughters

In his keynote address, Green as president of FTMI (appointed by Lou Sullivan), observes:
"We hear a lot these days about the ‘Gender Community’ or the ‘FTM Community’. But unlike the ‘Gay or Lesbian Communities,’ there really is no community of…