Miss Trans Pageant Offers Unique Rehabilitation For Inmates

“When a transsexual enters a prison aimed at men, they invariably turn into sexual property of the prisoners.” Gabriel H. Sanchez BuzzFeed Staff Every November at the Minas Gerais State Prison Complex in Brazil, the previous year’s Miss Trans Pageant winner awards the crown to the next. This past year, photographer Marcela Xavier was there…

Trans Women Share Writing in Summer Book Tour

Topside Press has organized a summer tour of groundbreaking transgender women writers visiting bookstores across the Northeast US. Last Friday, 70 people packed into the Wooden Shoe, a small independent bookstore in South Philadelphia. The enthusiastic audience was all there, despite the heat and the standing-room only crowd, to listen as eight transgender writers read…