In the U.S., 40% of homeless youth identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ). Kicked Out published by Homofactus Press brings together the voices of current and former homeless LGBTQ youth and tells these forgotten stories of some of our nation’s most vulnerable citizens. Diverse contributors share stories of survival and abuse with poignant accounts of the sanctuary of community and the power of creating chosen families. Kicked Out highlights the nuanced perspectives of national organizations such as The National Gay & Lesbian Task Force and The National Alliance Against Homelessness and regional agencies, including Sylvia’s Place, The Circus Project and Family Builders. This anthology introduced by Judy Shepard, gives voice to the voiceless and challenges the stereotypical face of homelessness. 

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Sassafras’ writing has been included in a variety of anthologies including:

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today’s transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theater artist S. Bear Bergman, collects and contextualizes the work of this generation’s trans and genderqueer forward thinkers — new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world’s most respected mainstream news sources. Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.

LGBTQ: America Today

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer culture is a vibrant and rapidly evolving component of the American mosaic. LGBTQ Americans have endured many struggles, and during the last decade in particular they have made tremendous contributions to our multicultural society. Drawing on the expertise of numerous expert contributors, this book from Greenwood Press gives students and general readers a current overview of contemporary LGBTQ American culture. Sweeping in scope, the encyclopedia looks at literature and the arts, associations and organizations, individuals, law and public policy concerns, health and relationships, sexual practices, and various other areas. Included are more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries

Visible: A Femmethology

Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each contributor’s concrete notion of femmedom.(Sassafras appears in both volume 1 and volume 2)

Gendered Hearts

Celebrating a radical frontier of sex and love within the queer experience, Gendered Hearts breaks new ground by focusing on trans writers from differently gendered perspectives. The collection includes thirty-one first-person narratives, poems, and interviews that create a raw and honest depiction of dating, sex, love, and relationships within the trans community.

Spilling Over

Despite the attention given by queer studies to the materiality of bodies and the cultural and social inscriptions that designate them, still a dearth of both scholarship and literature exists around intersections of gender, sexuality, and fatness. As fat studies begins to emerge as a viable academic location of inquiry, questions surface as to how fat bodies, deemed “excessive” in their trespasses of size and space, create even more complex subject positions when compounded by queer desires. This proposed anthology seeks contributions addressing junctions of “fat” and “queer” in pieces that consider the representations and resistances of non-normative corporeality and also writings considering the theoretical conceptions of these intricate subjectivities. Spilling Over will reflect the notions of excess, boundaries, and containment implied by the labels “fat” and “queer” both singularly and collectively. 

Trans-Fusions

Trans-Fusions’ is a collaborative project featuring over a dozen of the Transgender Communities hottest Artists, Musicians, Performers, and Speakers from around the world! The Album encompasses everything from folk to dance music, to spoken word, and even visual Art. The Backgrounds, and Identities of the Artists are as diverse as the music and covers a broad spectrum of the Transgender Community. Sassafras’ work appears on the 1st CD as well as the upcoming Trans-Fusion 2 (February 2010)

The Femme Coloring Book

Edited by Caitlin Sweet, The Femme Coloring Book is a collection of illustrations by femmes celebrating and exploring different types of femmeness. The coloring book brings together the art of 47 diverse femmes. All proceeds from the book are donated to Fancyland - a queer land in California.