Alex Iantaffi, TRANS AND DISABLED

Writer, therapist, speaker, and educator Alex Iantaffi visits the store to discuss Trans & Disabled: An Anthology of Identities & Experiences. This anthology brings together vulnerable stories, poems, plays, drawings, and personal essays. They explore how we make sense of ourselves, our intersections of identities and experiences, of how we are treated, and how much love we are capable of, sometimes even for ourselves.

Ground-breaking anthology of writing on the intersection of disability and gender identity from trans disabled writers.An anthology exploring the intersection of transness and disability through stories, poems, plays, drawings, and personal essays. The pieces within these pages explore plurality, chronic illness, fatness, wounds and scares, euphoria and transformation - and what it means to exist in liminal spaces.

To be trans and disabled means to have experienced harassment, discrimination, loneliness, often poverty, to have struggled with feeling unworthy of love.

To be trans and disabled means experiencing ableism within our trans communities and transphobia within our disabled communities.

To be trans and disabled means to love our fellow trans and disabled people harder than we could ever love ourselves.

Alex Iantaffi is the author of award-winning book Gender Trauma, co-author of How to Understand Your Gender, How to Understand Your Sexuality, How to Understand Your Relationships, Life Isn’t Binary, and Hell Yeah Self-Care: a Trauma-Informed Workbook, and editor of the Trans and Disabled anthology. They’re also a family therapist, WPATH certified gender specialist, sex therapist, Somatic ExperiencingⓇ practitioner, and clinical supervisor, with over two decades of clinical experience. Alex hosts the podcast Gender Stories and the YouTube series Warm Take Wednesdays with Dr Alex. When they are not working, writing, parenting, or organizing, Alex can be found reading, sitting by the lake, crafting, watching TV and movies, making music, reading tarot, cooking, dancing, doing ritual, and hanging out with their dogs. They love collaborating with others in service to the vision of a more liberated world for all of us.

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