Signed Books for Sale!
and other potential gifts
Since ’tis the season for gift giving, I thought I’d take a brief respite from my usual essays to encourage you to consider sharing my books with friends and family!
I currently have 5 books available: Whipping Girl (now in 3rd edition), Sexed Up, Excluded, Outspoken, and my award-winning novel 99 Erics. Those links will take you to full book descriptions, plus excerpts, reviews, and links to purchase them. Shorter summaries of each book can be found at the bottom of this post.
If you know someone who enjoyed Whipping Girl but hasn’t read anything else by me, I highly recommend Sexed Up, which is my most recent (and IMHO best) book that further expands upon many of those themes. Also, both are available as audiobooks.
While I’m not able to sell signed copies of Sexed Up at this time, it is possible to get signed copies of a few of my other books, here’s how:
I always have signed copies of my two self-published books—99 Erics & Outspoken—for sale directly from the buy stuff page of my website for $25 (PayPal or credit card), shipping included. All the instructions can be found at that link, including for you to leave a name (yours or somebody else’s) for me to make the signing out to. Shipping will be through USPS Media Mail, which they say takes 2 to 8 business day to deliver—this means your shipping address must be in the U.S. to do this!
For a limited time, I have signed copies of Whipping Girl 2nd edition also available at that link. NOTE: this is the 2016 version, not the more recent 3rd edition (they’re basically the same book, except that the 3rd edition has a new Afterword). [SORRY, SOLD OUT OF THIS ONE]
Whether you are outside the U.S. or within, you can also acquire signed books via my Patreon at certain tiers—specifically, if you support me at the $20 level for three months, or at the $50 level or higher for one month. You can also gift other people memberships to my Patreon! Just go to that link, click the “See membership options” button, and you’ll find the “gift now” option on that page.
While I prefer people to support me on Patreon, you can also gift people subscriptions to my Substack as well via this link: https://juliaserano.substack.com/gift
Whatever you decide to do, thank you for reading and supporting my work! And here are brief descriptions of all my books if you’re not familiar with them:
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity (Seal Press, 2007, 2016, 2024) is a collection of personal essays that debunk many of the myths and misconceptions that people have about trans women, femininity, and the subjects of gender and sexism more generally. The Third Edition has a new Afterword about trans youth and the current anti-trans moral panic.
Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back (Seal Press, 2022) examines the mindsets that shape how we perceive and interpret sex, gender, and sexuality. A central focus is on sexualization: when we nonconsensually reduce people to their real or imagined sexual attributes (their bodies, behaviors, desires) to the exclusion of other characteristics. I detail how sexualization plagues not just women, but all marginalized groups, and stems largely from the stigma we associate with sex itself. I also share strategies to overcome this sex-related stigma—strategies designed to foster sexual equity without sacrificing sexual diversity in the process.
99 Erics: a Kat Cataclysm faux novel (Switch Hitter Press, 2020; winner of the Publishing Triangle’s 2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, an Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) 2021 silver medalist in LGBT+ Fiction, and one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Indie Books of 2021) is my first foray into fiction. It follows the adventures (and/or misadventures) of Kat Cataclysm, an ethically non-monogamous bisexual woman and absurdist short fiction writer who attempts to date 99 different people named Eric for literature’s sake. It is silly, surreal, and sex-positive!
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive (Seal Press, 2013; finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction) offers vital new insights into how prejudice works and how to improve activism, addressing topics such as intersectionality, call-out culture, Nature-versus-Nurture debates, how to be an ethically gendered and sexual being, embracing heterogeneity and ambivalence, and more!
Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism (Switch Hitter Press, 2016; finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction) compiles forty-eight of my previously unpublished and difficult to find trans-themed writings, including my early slam poems and spoken word, essays and manifestos written contemporaneously with Whipping Girl and Excluded, plus my more recent work addressing differences within trans communities and activism.