Transgender and gender diverse people across the Global South have used life writing — memoir, autobiography, testimony — to claim their own stories, challenge colonial frameworks of gender, and petition for recognition and rights. But scholarship on trans life writing has focused almost entirely on North American, European, and Australian contexts. The writers and traditions of India, South Africa, Aotearoa New Zealand, and the diasporic communities of the Americas have been largely left out of the conversation.

This bibliography is an attempt to change that. It is a living, collaborative scholarly resource — open to anyone who knows this literature and wants to help build the archive. If you are a scholar, a reader, a community member, or a writer who knows of works that belong here, please use the form below to add them.

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