🖊️ Leo’s pick: Bless the Blood: a cancer memoir [YA nonfiction, memoir]
🖊️ Achilles’ pick: Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery [nonfiction, essays]
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🖊️ Wren’s pick: Amateur: A Reckoning of Gender, Identity, and Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee [nonfiction, memoir]
🖊️ T’s pick: So What if I’m a Puta by Amara Moira with Amanda De Lisio [nonfiction, essays]
Check out our staff picks for the Trans Rights Readathon! #trr #transrightsreadathon
🖊️ Korbin’s pick: Chlorine by Jade Song [adult fiction, horror]
🖊️ Silas’ pick: Ghost of my Ghosts by Sol Rios [poetry]
🖊️ Azuli’s pick: When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff [children’s fiction]
Achilles Toledo - Journalist/Staff Writer
Azuli Rodriguez - Social Media Graphic Designer
Korbin Richards - Social Media Copywriter
Leo Oliveras - Layout Designer
Silas Denver Melvin - Social Media Graphic Designer
T Edward - Journalist/Staff Writer
Wren Coulter - Editor-in-Chief/Creative Director
On the cover:
“For a Good Time Call…” 2025 by Nell Kerr
Special thanks to the team that helped bring this issue to life:
Issue 09 | Spring 2026 of Transfix Magazine is LIVE! Grab your free digital copy of this issue (and all the others) here! ko-fi.com/transfixmaga...
Written by Korbin Richards (they/them)
Sources:
Devin Michael Lowe Biography
www.transgendermediaportal.org/person/PERS_...
Black Trans Travel Fund
www.blacktranstravelfund.com/our-team.html
Black Trans Media
www.blacktransmedia.org/mission-stat...
Devin Michael Lowe www.imdb.com/name/nm83760...
Devin Michael Lowe is truly a jack of all trades and master of all. Community organizer, actor, and media producer, Lowe is the founder of Black Trans Travel Fund – an organization dedicated to resource sharing with Black Trans women – and is an organizer for Black Trans Media.
Graphic by silas denver melvin (he/him)
Friendly reminder that submissions are open all year long! The deadline to be considered for Issue 10 is May 9, 2026. See the 🔗 in bio for submission info and requirements! #transfixmagazine #opensubmissions
Written by Korbin Richards (they/them)
Sources:
Studio Museum in Harlem Collection:
www.studiomuseum.org/artists/tour...
Filmmaker and Activist Tourmaline on How to Freedom Dream:
www.vogue.com/article/film...
Photo by MaryV Benoit for Vogue, July 2020
#blackhistorymonth #blacktransfutures #tourmaline
Then and now, hardship and pleasure: Tourmaline dedicates her art and activism to these relationships and brings into being a future of Black Trans liberation. Most recently known for her biography of Marsha P. Johnson, Tourmaline is also a filmmaker, artist, and activist.
The Legacy of Willmer “Little Axe” Broadnax: Gospel Music’s Undisputed Maestro
faroutmagazine.co.uk/legacy-willm...
Queer History: Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyxs...
Written by Korbin Richards (they/them)
Learn more:
Peacock Records: “So Soon,” Little Axe and the Golden Echoes, back of LP
www.queermusicheritage.com/feb2015broad...
Nicknamed Little Axe, Willmer Broadnax sang gospel like his soul depended on it. Like the gospel he sang, Broadnax defied the violent anti-Black and cis-patriarchal systems built to destroy him. Only upon his death did it become known that he was trans. #blacktranshistory #littleaxe
13 Powerful Marsha P. Johnson Quotes
www.biography.com/activists/a7...
Marsha P. Johnson Institute
marshap.org
Library of Congress Research Guides
guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studie...
Written by Korbin Richards (they/them)
Sources:
Women’s History
www.womenshistory.org/education-re...
Erin in the Morning: Black Trans Trailblazers That You May Not Learn About in History Class:
www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...
How can we begin our Black Trans Histories and Futures series without Marsha P. Johnson? A Stonewall legend, Marsha was an advocate for Black Trans youth and sex workers, and that advocacy continues at the Marsha P. Johnson Institute. #blacktranshistory #marshapjohnson
The Issue 08 Playlist. Pretty bitter - Thrill Eater, Artio - Seven Suns (feat. kahal), Ethel Cain - Nettles, Kim Petras - Freak It, Michaela Jaé - Two to Tango
Bad Static - Not Yr Doll, Granite Garden - Picture on a Wall, Drama Moth - The Tower, Cody Frost - NATURAL SELECTION, Strange New Places - Full of Myself
Have you gotten a chance to listen to the Issue 08 playlist? Check it out on our Spotify open.spotify.com/user/31ofqsb...
All issues of Transfix Magazine are available for free digital download on our ko-fi (ko-fi.com/transfixmaga...)
@victorviero.bsky.social and I are featured in the latest issue of @transfixmagazine.bsky.social ! Download is free!
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Transgender boy in full puppy play leather self-portrait.
My 🍑 on the cover of the newest issue of Transfix Magazine. Couldn't be happier with how my spread turned out. Pdf of the magazine can be download at ko-fi.com/s/1d6cae0b10
#ftm #transmasc #leather #bdsm #latex #transgender #kink #puppyplay
Updated this to have larger text! It’s now easier than ever to read about how doctors scoop out your insides!
IPC [Feb 27] -- 18 years after Dems passed a law giving transgender Iowans civil rights protections, the state's Reps have passed a law repealing those rights, making it the first state to strip its citizens of such a broad swath of legal rights.
[@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
I wish more people understood that the anti-trans and anti-vaccine movements are deeply intertwined, and by allowing bigotry and conspiracies to supersede medical and scientific knowledge on the subject of trans healthcare, mainstream press paved the way for anti-vaccine rhetoric to flourish.
Lou Sullivan was a visionary gay trans activist, writer, speaker, and organizer who advocated for the recogonition of gay trans people.