'READ MY LIPS,' A BOOK OF SEXUAL SUBVERSION AND THE END OF GENDER BY RIKI WILCHINS, REISSUED BY THE MAGNUS BOOKS IMPRINT OF RIVERDALE AVENUE BOOKS ON APRIL 25TH

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'Read My Lips' burst onto the scene in 1997 without precedent. It was unique, radical, endearing, outrageous, and very funny. It stood the orthodox academic and medical theories about transexuals on their
heads. At last, a trans-intellectual built a theoretical foundation of
transgenderism in accessible language, and, most importantly, laid out the tools to fight back against gender oppression.  The book has influenced queer academics and gender-queer folk everywhere for more than 15 years and its message remains radical.

 

The landmark 'Read My Lips,'  considered to be a canon of
trans-writing, will be re-published as an e-book on Thursday, April 25th  by the
Magnus Books imprint of Riverdale Avenue Books.    It  will also be
available in a trade paperback edition on Amazon.com and on other popular online retail sites.


"It's great to see this book back in print again,” says author
Riki Wilchins. “This reissue contains corrections and restores
cuts from the first Firebrand printing and will stand as the
definitive version. I'm so glad to be working with Don and Magnus!"


Magnus Books editor-in-chief Don Weise says, “'Read
My Lips' is a foundational text that gave voice to the modern trans
activist movement. I've long known of the book, however, it wasn't until reading
it in the present day that I saw how ahead of her time Riki was in her
thinking—and how many of her arguments are as relevant today as ever. That she
writes so effectively with an unlikely combination of anger, intelligence, and
humor makes Read My Lips that much more impressive. I'm thrilled to add this
classic to the Magnus list."

The Magnus edition includes a forward by
Julia Serano, best known for her book 'Whipping Girl: A
Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity,' a
collection of personal essays about misogyny and the myths and misconceptions
about transsexual women. Julia is also an accomplished spoken word artist, 
performing at a variety of high profile events, including Toronto Pride, San
Francisco Pride Main Stage, The San Francisco Dyke March, Ladyfest Bay Area, and
The National Queer Arts Festival.

About the Author: Riki
Wilchins is an author, activist and gender theorist. The founding ED of
GenderPAC, she is the author of Queer Theory/Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
and co-editor of GenderQueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary. Her work has
been published in periodicals like the Village Voice and Social Text, as well as
anthologies like Feminist Frontiers, Language Awareness, and The Encyclopedia of
Identity. She has been profiled in the New York Times and Time Magazine selected
her one of “100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century.” She lives in Washington,
DC.

Praise for Read My Lips

 “Read My Lips is
brilliant, spirited, and defiant. Wilchins has made a very serious political
topic highly readable, enlivening it with her mordant wit.”—Loren
Cameron

“In this wonderfully provocative book, Riki Wilchins refuses the
traps and cages of a gender-specific society and does it in a way that promises
greater freedom for us all. With its belief in the richness of gender
contradictions and fluidity.”—Joan Nestle

“This is a deeply intelligent
and iconoclastic vision rooted in personal experience and rigorous intellectual
analysis of that experience. I was enlightened, confused, angry, and provoked
from cover to cover.”—Sarah Schulman

Read My Lips
April
2013
Digital edition, $9.99, ISBN: 978-1-936833-64-1
Trade paper edition,
$19.99, 192 pages, 5 ¼  x 8”
ISBN: 978-1-936833-25-2
www.riverdaleavebooks.com