Review of "Gendertrash From Hell" edited by Mirha-Soleil Ross.

"The book, edited by Mirha-Soleil Ross, collects the four published issues of the original iconoclastic trans zine of the same name, first printed and distributed from 1993 to 1995, as well as the materials for a fifth issue that never got finished, and an archive of additional materials from the vaults. This is the first time that the zine and its ephemera have been published in book form. Gendertrash, from its inception, was created in order to give “a voice to gender queers, who’ve been discouraged from speaking out and communicating with each other.” Its five issues, edited by Toronto-based then-girlfriends Mirha-Soleil Ross (aka Jeanne B.) and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, provide a searing, witty, critical and defiant view of trans lives, struggles, desires and philosophies. It feels just as pressing now as it did in the early 1990s. That LittlePuss Press, the publisher of this volume, is run by two trans women provides an additional thread of connection between past and present." (p.1)