Gender Quake is a book of revolutionary poems that explores what it means to be a transgendered individual in America. Joelle Ruby Ryan, a self-styled 6’6” transgender warrior, bares her soul in this collection of poems which is at turns humorous, poignant, searing and deeply passionate. From the ashes of loneliness, rage, and despair, Ryan charts an emotional trajectory which jolts readers into confronting their own shared humanity with differently-gendered people. Ryan covers topics as diverse as feminism, porn, passing, violence, activism and the urgent need for solidarity across lines of identity and difference. While the book explores the darkest corners of a life marred by pain, discrimination and self-hatred, it also repeatedly calls upon hope, love and justice as the primary correctives for imagining a better world. Gender Quake will shock you, educate you and most of all move you to join the fight for a gender revolution. “So World, take note: the Gender Quake is ready to activate, and the whirl is gonna be blissful, and divine, and unstoppable.”

Praise for Gender Quake : Joelle Ruby Ryan’s first anthology of word Gender Quake resounds of brilliance. A born Gender Trailblazer, her work is raw and vulnerable and speaks of angst and celebration in the depths and complexities of her own human condition. - Peter Welch, Artist, Educator, Trans Activist and Ally Joelle Ruby Ryan’s collection of poems is a remarkable showcase of the emotions that a young soul goes through seeking their unique gender place in a rigidly gender-defined world. This is a collection that belongs in High School libraries, for those of that tender age seeking answers to the questions surrounding their gender identity. The future of transgender activism is in good hands with Joelle Ruby Ryan. - Janice Josephine Carney, Author of Purple Hearts and Silver Stars Joelle Ruby Ryan’s poetry is audacious, bodacious, and outrageous. She’s not afraid to tell it like it is. She celebrates, explicates, and ruminates on what it means to live not as a woman or a man, but as an “uppity tranny” with a vision of hope and acceptance for all peoples and all genders. Visionary and unafraid, Ryan does it with style, with rage, and with love. Gender Quake sends shock waves into the world, with poems that reach courageously into Ryan’s own community and beyond, with messages that are a painful joy to hear. - Melina Draper, Author of What Better Place Than This?

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