[Air-L] New Book: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet

[Jason Farman]

Congratulations, Avery! I'm so excited to see this book out in the world.
This is a great work and I know it will be well received by the
AoIR community.
Best,
Jason

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Jason Farman, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School

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On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 2:20 PM Avery Dame-Griff via Air-L <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> Since it’s now officially out, I wanted to share the announcement for my
> new book, *The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet*,
> which might be of interest to folks on this list:
> https://nyupress.org/9781479818310/the-two-revolutions/. If you order it
> through the publisher, NYU Press, they have a 30% off discount code
> (NYUAU30).
>
> *Blurb: **The Two Revolutions* explores how the rise of the internet shaped
> transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present. Through
> extensive archival research and media archeology, Avery Dame-Griff
> reconstructs the manifold digital networks of transgender activists,
> cross-dressing computer hobbyists, and others interested in gender
> nonconformity who incited the second revolution of the title: the
> ascendance of “transgender” as an umbrella identity in the mid-1990s.
>
> Dame-Griff argues that digital communications sparked significant momentum
> within what would become the transgender movement, but also further
> cemented existing power structures. Covering both a historical period that
> is largely neglected within the history of computing, and the poorly
> understood role of technology in queer and trans social movements, *The Two
> Revolutions* offers a new understanding of both revolutions—the internet’s
> early development and the structures of communication that would take us to
> today’s tipping point of trans visibility politics. Through a history of
> how trans people online exploited different digital infrastructures in the
> early days of the internet to build a community, *The Two Revolutions*
> tells a crucial part of trans history itself.
>
> ---
> Please feel free to reach out if you’re thinking about teaching with it or
> interested in reviewing it! It’d be a great fit not just for WGSS or LGBTQ
> Studies courses, but also topics courses on political organizing, social
> movements, online communities, or web history.
>
> And if you do use any part of it to teach, I encourage you to check out the
> Queer Digital History Project’s Exhibits (
> https://queerdigital.com/exhibits)
> and Teaching Guides (https://queerdigital.com/teaching), which offer
> resources and ideas for teaching about some of the topics covered in the
> book.
>
> Best,
> Avery Dame-Griff
>
> --
> Avery Dame-Griff (he/him/his)
> Lecturer, Women's and Gender Studies (Gonzaga University)
> Author, *The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet* (NYU
> Press, August 2023)
> Curator, Queer Digital History Project <http://queerdigital.com/>
> averydame.net
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