Gendertrash from Hell : The First Print Collection of the Zine That Changed Everything

A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Nonfiction • Finalist for the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

"A breathtaking archive of our community ... An absolute vital work for a precipitous time." —Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix

“Searing, witty, critical and defiant” —Xtra

In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa 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.

Mirha-Soleil Ross is a legendary trans activist and performer. She was the editor of Gendertrash From Hell, the organizer of the first ever trans film festival Counting Past Two, and the creator of multiple one-woman performances including "Yapping Out Loud: Confessions of an Unrepentant Whore". Her work since the early 1990s in Montreal and Toronto has focused on transsexual rights, access to resources, advocacy for sex workers and animal rights.