Coming Soon
This page makes it easy to keep track of my future releases. Predicted publication dates are given but may be subject to change.
An anthology of writing on transgender issues collected by Morty Diamond, with a contribution from Jennie Kermode
STOP PRESS: After being dropped by Suspect Thoughts Press, Gendered Hearts has at last been successful in finding a new publisher. Alyson Press are now taking over; it's not yet known if this will change the release date.
Praise for Gendered Hearts:
"This is where sex and gender collide, then ricochet like fragments of heart rending shrapnel. Morty Diamond's anthology, Gendered Hearts, is a unique compilation of the most intimate accounts of differently gendered people's relationships with their own and others' bodies. While I wish this could be a work of unabashed joy, that would hardly be honest. What you will find here instead is honesty, ambivalence, humor, anger, lust, passion - and not a little unabashed joy. Rarely has a book about lust been full of so much love, conflict, and intelligence. If you think you already know what's in these stories, or you think you don't need to know, you're wrong. As usual, the voices from the so-called fringe resonate with the hopes, dreams, compromises, and unlikely successes that make up what we dismiss so casually as human nature. Brace yourself to be cracked open and placed in a state of self-reflection. Gendered Hearts are waiting within these pages, waiting to be healed or hurt, broken or rescued from calumny and obscurity. I have to believe there are readers who are up to its challenge.
- Patrick Califia, author of Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism and Speaking Sex to Power.
"This is a bold, brave, beautiful collection of work. The stories and interviews are windows into some of the most misunderstood and underepresented people in our community: trans and gender-variant folks and the people who love them. Diamond has collected the voices of a diverse group of writers, and their words inspire, challenge, and incite. This should be required reading for anyone interested in what love and relationships in the 21st century 'really' look like."
- Tristan Taormino
"Having been around the trans and genderqueer scene for nearly two decades, I sometimes slip into thinking that I've seen and heard it all before--then something like Morty Diamond's latest anthology comes along to remind me that that's simply not true. Representing an erotic range that runs from steamy to stony, the writers and interviewees showcased in Gendered Hearts make it clear that gender, embodiment, and sexuality continue to evolve, but that (cheesy as this might sound) love persists in ever-emerging forms."
- Susan Stryker (Associate Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana University; Author, Transgender History (Seal Press, 2008)
Gendered Hearts is set to be released in mid 2009.
Go back to Jennie's Writing Page.
Last updated 19th March, 2009.