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Themes labels used: gender identity, transition, trans solidarity, transmisogyny, microaggressions, internalized transphobia, revenge, ethics, community conflict, self-actualization, body autonomy, medical precarity, social collapse, choice, scarcity, marginalization

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Volatile Memory

Seth Haddon · 2025 · The Volatile Memory Duology

A scavenger finds a sentient animal mask, and the two are pulled into a revenge-fueled, queer sci-fi chase.

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Themes labels: identity · personhood · gender identity · bodily autonomy · consent · transphobia · queerness · feminine rage · revenge · humanity · consciousness · self-acceptance · freedom · control · capitalism · misogyny · body-mind divide · survival · self-determination · embodiment · memory · privacy · dehumanization

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Awakened

A.E. Osworth · 2025

A newly Awakened queer Brooklynite joins a coven of trans witches to confront a malicious AI and find belonging.

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Themes labels: trans identity · community · belonging · self discovery · bodyhood · consciousness · sentience · AI ethics · late capitalism · trauma · trust · queer joy · transphobia · misgendering · identity politics · social hierarchy · responsibility · late life change · anti TERF

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Half Life

Shelley Jackson · 2006

A conjoined twin in a post-nuclear alternate America seeks separation, only to confront a destabilizing mystery about her past.

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Themes labels: identity · selfhood · duality · otherness · individuation · body autonomy · minority rights · gender politics · queer politics · sexual politics · assimilation · stigma · embodiment · consciousness · madness · memory · trauma · reality vs perception · ethics · euthanasia · abortion · environmental degradation · nuclear guilt · monstrosity · community · self-interest

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Manhunt

Gretchen Felker-Martin · 2022

In a virus-ravaged post-apocalypse, trans survivors hunt feral men, fight TERF militias, and cling to bodies, love, and hormones.

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Themes labels: trans survival · transmisogyny · gender essentialism · bioessentialism · misogyny · fear and hatred · body autonomy · identity · survival ethics · violence · desperation · community · queer resilience · class power · fatphobia · dysphoria · medical scarcity · oppression · trauma

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Nieves Delgado · 2017

A newly awakened AI questions identity, gender, and belonging while trying to live among humans in a near future.

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Themes labels: identity · selfhood · consciousness · humanity · difference · conformity · social integration · labels · gender · sex and gender · trans identity · transfobia · feminism · discrimination · otherness · prejudice · ethics · personhood · anthropocentrism · free will · language and naming · body autonomy · purpose · rebellion · technology and society · philosophical inquiry

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World Running Down

Al Hess · 2023

A trans salvager chases city citizenship and gender-affirming care, then a job and an AI companion complicate everything.

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Themes labels: bodily autonomy · identity · sentience · personhood · free will · consent · gender dysphoria · trans joy · trans pain · self-determination · class inequality · liberation · community · kindness · humanity · social justice · access to healthcare · prejudice · neurodivergence

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Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

Julian K. Jarboe · 2020

A queer speculative story collection uses body horror, myth, and dystopia to explore transness, survival, and belonging.

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Themes labels: transness · queerness · identity · bodily autonomy · body dysphoria · transformation · capitalism · gentrification · climate catastrophe · religion · Catholic guilt · family trauma · abuse · community · survival · memory · myth · loss · age · love · safety · alienation · class · neoliberalism · social stratification · reproduction · women's bodies · righteous rage · solidarity · immigration gatekeeping · employment gatekeeping · disability · neurodivergence · autonomy

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Apsara Engine

Bishakh Kumar Som · 2020

A graphic short-story collection where queer South Asian lives, myth, and speculative disruptions blur everyday reality into strange futures.

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Themes labels: gender · body · identity · transness · queer life · intersectionality · ethnicity · religion · social class · postcoloniality · conformity · femininity · desire · heartbreak · memory · time · future · place · belonging · community · power · microaggressions · representation · existential unease

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Future Feeling

Joss Lake · 2021

A jealous trans dog walker’s revenge curse backfires, launching him into a surreal queer quest for a stranger’s rescue.

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Themes labels: transness · gender identity · self-acceptance · self-actualization · queer community · family · friendship · jealousy · social media · illusion · technology · magic · kinship · mental health · depression · identity · belonging · self-love · white guilt · race · indigeneity · adoption · capitalism · consumerism · wellness culture · masculinity · gender roles · care ethics · community support

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Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky · 2023

A newly out trans artist’s assistant endures a chaotic bachelor weekend at a lawless resort that hides cults and monsters.

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Themes labels: transition · gender identity · transphobia · transmisogyny · masculinity · capitalism · queer community · authentic self · friendship change · allyship failures · identity and belonging · patriarchy · consumerism · hustle culture · self-acceptance

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Eleven Percent

Maren Uthaug · 2025 · 11%

In a matriarchal future where men are only 11% of society, four women’s lives collide amid ritual, control, and secrets.

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Themes labels: feminism · patriarchy · gender roles · power · sexuality · bodily autonomy · reproduction · religion · taboo · shame · violence · social control · extremism · identity · trans identity · queer identity · bioessentialism · social satire · ethics · body politics

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The Book of Etta

Meg Elison · 2017 · The Road to Nowhere

A gender-nonconforming scavenger from a plague-ravaged settlement sets out to rescue women and confront a tyrant.

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Themes labels: gender identity · gender roles · sexuality · survival · female oppression · reproductive politics · trauma · social reconstruction · rebuilding society · freedom vs duty · discrimination · queer identity · body autonomy · violence · human trafficking · patriarchy · matriarchy · choice · identity formation

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