PRE-ORDER | Gendertrash From Hell edited by Mirha-Soleil Ross (Paperback)
A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture
In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillipa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going "stealth," began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and prisoners; they printed collages, soap operas and polemics; they ran regular sections with titles like “Trannies Speak Out” and “Hooker of the Month”. They redefined transsexual culture forever, and their explosive ideas resonate deeply today.
Remastered from the original layouts, this foundational work is now available in book form for the first time, including previously-unseen drafts from the unfinished fifth issue and essays by Trish Salah and Leah Tigers. Irreverent, furious, reckless, sexy, hilarious and incisive, Gendertrash from Hell is here to set all your presuppositions on fire.
(Sidebar: 🇨🇦 CANADA 🇨🇦 pre-orders here: anotherstory.ca/gendertrash)
PRAISE FOR GENDERTRASH FROM HELL
“There is an alternate history of what we now call trans studies, trans culture, trans literature, one that is not USian and monolingual in its origin stories and normative framework, one that begins rooted in sex worker, racialized, Indigenous and street active transsexual and transgender peoples communities, one that is not “queer paradigmed” in its frame, or oriented towards respectability or institutional legitimation.”
—Trish Salah, Lambda Award-winning author of Wanting in Arabic and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1
“You’re doing a print edition of Gendertrash from Hell?! I’ve been hoping for something like this for years!”
—Alice Stoehr, author of Sissy Bitches, bookseller at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN)
“Gender's back in town, baby!”
—Lou Barcott, Myopic Books (Chicago, IL)
“Wait, are you serious? Oh dude, this is so big. The era of passing around that one Xanthra Phillippa poem out of context on Insta stories is over. The girls are going to learn … genetics on notice!”
—Joyce Laurie, Editor of Picnic magazine
“Who knew, back in the early 1990s, that trans people could love one another like this?”
—Leah Tigers
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publication Date: November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964322-08-7
Page Count: 312
Dimensions: 7.7” x 9.35”
A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture
In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillipa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going "stealth," began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and prisoners; they printed collages, soap operas and polemics; they ran regular sections with titles like “Trannies Speak Out” and “Hooker of the Month”. They redefined transsexual culture forever, and their explosive ideas resonate deeply today.
Remastered from the original layouts, this foundational work is now available in book form for the first time, including previously-unseen drafts from the unfinished fifth issue and essays by Trish Salah and Leah Tigers. Irreverent, furious, reckless, sexy, hilarious and incisive, Gendertrash from Hell is here to set all your presuppositions on fire.
(Sidebar: 🇨🇦 CANADA 🇨🇦 pre-orders here: anotherstory.ca/gendertrash)
PRAISE FOR GENDERTRASH FROM HELL
“There is an alternate history of what we now call trans studies, trans culture, trans literature, one that is not USian and monolingual in its origin stories and normative framework, one that begins rooted in sex worker, racialized, Indigenous and street active transsexual and transgender peoples communities, one that is not “queer paradigmed” in its frame, or oriented towards respectability or institutional legitimation.”
—Trish Salah, Lambda Award-winning author of Wanting in Arabic and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1
“You’re doing a print edition of Gendertrash from Hell?! I’ve been hoping for something like this for years!”
—Alice Stoehr, author of Sissy Bitches, bookseller at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN)
“Gender's back in town, baby!”
—Lou Barcott, Myopic Books (Chicago, IL)
“Wait, are you serious? Oh dude, this is so big. The era of passing around that one Xanthra Phillippa poem out of context on Insta stories is over. The girls are going to learn … genetics on notice!”
—Joyce Laurie, Editor of Picnic magazine
“Who knew, back in the early 1990s, that trans people could love one another like this?”
—Leah Tigers
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publication Date: November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964322-08-7
Page Count: 312
Dimensions: 7.7” x 9.35”
A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture
In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillipa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going "stealth," began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and prisoners; they printed collages, soap operas and polemics; they ran regular sections with titles like “Trannies Speak Out” and “Hooker of the Month”. They redefined transsexual culture forever, and their explosive ideas resonate deeply today.
Remastered from the original layouts, this foundational work is now available in book form for the first time, including previously-unseen drafts from the unfinished fifth issue and essays by Trish Salah and Leah Tigers. Irreverent, furious, reckless, sexy, hilarious and incisive, Gendertrash from Hell is here to set all your presuppositions on fire.
(Sidebar: 🇨🇦 CANADA 🇨🇦 pre-orders here: anotherstory.ca/gendertrash)
PRAISE FOR GENDERTRASH FROM HELL
“There is an alternate history of what we now call trans studies, trans culture, trans literature, one that is not USian and monolingual in its origin stories and normative framework, one that begins rooted in sex worker, racialized, Indigenous and street active transsexual and transgender peoples communities, one that is not “queer paradigmed” in its frame, or oriented towards respectability or institutional legitimation.”
—Trish Salah, Lambda Award-winning author of Wanting in Arabic and Lyric Sexology, Vol. 1
“You’re doing a print edition of Gendertrash from Hell?! I’ve been hoping for something like this for years!”
—Alice Stoehr, author of Sissy Bitches, bookseller at The Irreverent Bookworm (Minneapolis, MN)
“Gender's back in town, baby!”
—Lou Barcott, Myopic Books (Chicago, IL)
“Wait, are you serious? Oh dude, this is so big. The era of passing around that one Xanthra Phillippa poem out of context on Insta stories is over. The girls are going to learn … genetics on notice!”
—Joyce Laurie, Editor of Picnic magazine
“Who knew, back in the early 1990s, that trans people could love one another like this?”
—Leah Tigers
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publication Date: November 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964322-08-7
Page Count: 312
Dimensions: 7.7” x 9.35”