Whipping Girl

writer, performer and activist Julia Serano's blog! most posts will focus on gender & sexuality; trans, queer & feminist politics; music & performance; and other stuff that interests or concerns me. find out more about my various creative endeavors at juliaserano.com

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

reviews & an excerpt from my new book Sexed Up!

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My latest email update just came out. If you want to receive these sorts of updates directly into your inbox, you can sign up here . Since ...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Pre-order my new book: “Sexed Up”!

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My latest book, Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back , will be published by Seal Press on May 17, 2022 – three wee...
Saturday, February 26, 2022

crowdfunding for Japanese translation of Whipping Girl

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Some good news to share: The Tokyo-based publisher Thousands of Books has made an arrangement with my publisher (Seal Press) to translate my...
Monday, December 20, 2021

99 Erics on Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie Books of 2021!

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Earlier this year, I was happy to announce that my first foray into fiction, 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel , was the winner of the Pu...
Saturday, December 11, 2021

end of year update, plus signed books for sale!

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Last week, I published my latest email update , you can read it via that link. (If you want to receive these email updates directly into you...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

2 new essays on anti-trans activism & the "sexual predator" trope

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A few months back, I published an essay entitled Transgender People, Bathrooms, and Sexual Predators: What the Data Say . It cited numerous ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

6 recent Medium articles!

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As some of you may know, I sometimes publish articles on Medium – that link will take you to my Medium page, where you can find all the pie...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

a statement about the thing

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CW for mentions of child sexual abuse (CSA) and accusations thereof so basically, it’s a trap. no matter what you do.  because person X (who...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

99 Erics Wins Two Book Awards! (plus other news)

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I recently sent out my latest email update – you can read it at that link. And if you want to receive these email updates directly to your ...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

Publishing Triangle finalist, review, and reading!

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As some of you may know, my latest book 99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel was recently announced as a finalist for the Publishing Triang...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

new 99 Erics book reviews!

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So a couple new 99 Erics book reviews were recently published and I wanted to share excerpts with you! This excerpt is from Kirkus Reviews ...
Tuesday, December 8, 2020

signed books available for a limited time!

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Last week, I published my latest email update , you can read it via that link. (If you want to receive these email updates directly into you...
Tuesday, September 1, 2020

my "99 Erics" virtual book tour!

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The virtual book tour is over now. But all the readings have been archived on YouTube & Facebook, so you can watch them there! (see belo...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

TERF Wars collection features my updated critique of "autogynephilia"

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This week, The Sociological Review (an academic journal) published a special issue entitled TERF Wars: Feminism and the fight for transgende...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

a year's worth of julia news!

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the latest excerpt from my novel 99 Erics! Last week, I published my first full email update in about a year! You can read the whole upd...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

my debut novel "99 Erics" has been released!

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So in recent posts, I shared news of my 2nd book Excluded being mentioned in two "best books of the 2010s" lists , the release o...
Monday, March 9, 2020

He's Unmarked, She's Marked: my essay in Believe Me

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Welcome to the third of four posts summarizing recent news about books that I have written and/or am otherwise included in. In this post...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Spanish and French translations of Whipping Girl

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Welcome to the second of four posts summarizing recent news about books that I have written and/or contributed to. In this post, I am hono...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Excluded selected as one of the best books of the decade!

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I have had a bunch of book-related news of late, some of which I've alluded to or mentioned elsewhere on social media over the last se...
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

"99 Erics" – an update about my forthcoming novel!

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Over the last few years, I have been writing silly, surreal, sex-positive fiction centered on a character named Kat Cataclysm . Back in 20...
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Julia Serano is an Oakland, California-based writer, performer, speaker, and biologist. She is the author of the recent book "Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive" (Seal Press, 2013). Her first book "Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity" (Seal Press, 2007) has been used as teaching materials in gender studies, queer studies, social studies, human sexuality and psychology courses across North America.
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