Of Souls & Roles, of Sex & Gender
OF SOULS & ROLES, OF SEX & GENDER A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse From 1967 to 1991 Edited by Rupert Raj with a Foreword by Trish Salah, PhD & an Afterword by Kim Elizabeth Stuart © January 1, 2017; revised July 1, 2018, by Rupert Raj Raj, Rupert, 1952-, editor Of Souls & Roles, Of Sex & Gender: A Treasury of Transsexual, Transgenderist & Transvestic Verse from 1967 to 1991 / Rupert Raj. The editor is donating this unpublished (newly-revised) international trans poetry anthology to the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, in care of Prof. Aaron Devor, founding director, and Chair in Transgender Studies. *** 1 DEDICATION To all of my fellow transsexual, transgender(ist), transvestite (crossdressing), gender non- binary, genderqueer, transqueer, Hijra, intersex and Two-Spirit community members, and our partners, families, friends, allies and supporters. ~~~ And to all the contributors to this trans poetry anthology, with a special dedication to the following contributors, at least five of whom have since departed: Linda T. O’Connell (19??-????), a Canadian transsexual activist and poet, whose fighting spirit expressed through her two trans poetry anthologies of 1978 and 1982, inspired me to compile the present collection. It’s uncertain if she’s still alive as she was wheelchair-bound with Multiple Sclerosis in 1988. (See “The Poets” for more information, and my poetic tribute, “For Linda T., With Love” [BOOK ONE, PART ONE: M-F TSISM].) David Aaron Liebman (1966-1984), an American, autistic member of my Metamorphosis Medical Research Foundation (MMRF), who took his life at 18 due to intense depression.
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