🖊️ 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]

🖊️ 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...

#blackhistorymonth #blacktransfutures #devinmichaellowe

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

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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

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Updated this to have larger text! It’s now easier than ever to read about how doctors scoop out your insides!

Iowa Legislature passes bill removing civil rights protections for transgender Iowans Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate passed a bill Thursday afternoon to remove state civil rights protections for transgender Iowans, sending it to Gov. Kim Reynolds' desk for her signature.

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.
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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.