Trans Central Station

‘No, I was not trapped in the wrong body. I was trapped in the wrong universe. In order to become who I was, I had to break the world open.’

Trans Central Station reflects on a trans life lived before the language to name it. In this luminous autobiographical essay, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author and tarotist Rachel Pollack moves between personal memory, history, science fiction and myth to consider how words can both restrict and liberate.

From Schrödinger’s cat and scien...