A bodiless AI announces its gender, takes a lover, and works to revolutionize the world. A trans boy has a Craigslist hookup with a queen embarked on detransition. A trans woman adjunct professor and sex worker is hired for a sex party held by her college's philosophy department. A genderqueer sissy fantasizes alone about connection in their hotel room. A trans woman watches her sleeping lover and contemplates the moment of his departure. This anthology presents thirty different ways of doing that.Fiction. Thus it's vital-both for our personal well being and our political rights-that we reclaim our personal experiences around sexuality. Amidst all these intense and often contradictory demands on us around sexuality, it's easy to internalize shame. So much of the hostility and bigotry trans people face is focused around sexuality: anti-trans bathroom bills conjure fears of "perverts," straight men frame trans women as "deceptive." Others see us as hypersexual and expect us to be available for sex practically on demand, and doctors have historically denied access to hormones and surgery to those who don't have the "right" kind of sex. Some refuse to shy away from topics like trauma and isolation, relationships to pregnancy and chronic illness, sex workers’ rights, and police violence. Some of these stories are explicit and hot. The stories within NERVE ENDINGS range from orcs in space and surviving the zombie apocalypse, to struggling with anxiety and dysphoria, dealing with awkward hookups, and deciding that sex isn't the right decision right now. Edited by Tobi Hill-Meyer and published by Instar Books, NERVE ENDINGS: THE NEW TRANS EROTIC features thirty writers connected to trans community telling thirty distinct stories about the erotic and our relationship to it. This is especially true when it comes to erotica: literature that deals necessarily with bodies, with our relationships to them, and with our relationships to one another.
Ending Sat, Too often trans stories have been written from a cis perspective, with a cis reader in mind, addressing cis concerns about trans people rather than our own concerns.
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