"As I read them, I remember feeling more and more amazed. This zine was rewriting my entire understanding of transsexual history. Sure, some parts felt dated: the terrible poetry about sex, the shameful adverts for mail-order cross-dressing emporia, the overwrought surgery diaries. But other parts were light-years ahead of where I was up to. I wasn't ready for the critique of queer theory, or the focus on sex work, homelessness, incarceration, race and Indigeneity."
"It was 2013. I'd recently moved to New York and discovered the trans zines of Sybil Lamb. Or, really, the concept of zines, period. I've never been "punk rock," but I really love good literature, and Sybil's work blew my mind. In fact, that was how I became a publisher: by working with Sybil to turn those zines into I've Got A Time Bomb, the greatest and most insane picaresque novel of the 21st century."
Gendertrash From Hell was a Toronto zine edited by Xanthra Phillippa Mackay and Mirha-Soleil Ross, produced in four issues between 1993 and 1995. The zine combined radical political analysis with personal writing, addressing sex work, homelessness, incarceration, race, and Indigeneity alongside critiques of queer theory. It included varied content—poetry, adverts, surgery diaries—some elements that later readers found dated. The zine emphasized organizing, liberation, and struggle and expressed a profound love for trans people. The zine contrasted with 1990s trans internet aesthetics of pink websites, butterflies, and 'true selves'.
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