Transland

Transland is the latest example of provocative queer non-fiction that we've published, following in the footsteps of such books as Amber Dawn's How Poetry Saved My Life, Cid V Brunet's This Is My Real Name, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Dirty River, and Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide. Like these books, Transland explores issues of gender and sexuality with fluidity, honesty, and great tenderness.

Author Mx. Sly (they/them) is a non-binary Canadian-Australian writer and theater practitioner. Evocative of the early work of Michelle Tea,Transland is a memoir told in essay form, about what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that fetish communities come with just as many problematic rules, expectations, and hierarchies as mainstream communities. Sly explores what drew them to the fetish community in the first place as a way to understand and articulate their gender. They also explore how kink helped them turn shameful experiences into liberating ones, and how they ultimately became disillusioned with the BDSM scene though without rejecting the lessons fetish taught them.

Transland is one of the first works of narrative nonfiction exploring fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. The impetus for Sly to write this book came in 2016, when they wrote a sexually frank article for the Canadian queer newspaper Xtra that described intimacies of the fetish scene; it ended up being nominated for a writing award in Canada alongside some of the country's best writers. That experience demonstrated to Sly the need and hunger for gritty trans stories about love, sex, and self-worth.

Blurbs forthcoming from Eternity Martis (author of the memoir They Said This Would Be Fun) and playwright and novelist Jordan Tannahill (The Listeners).

The audience for this book will be LGBTQ+ and sex-positive readers.

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