Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world.

Taking the idea of intellectual masturbation a bit too literally, Florence Ashley draws on their experiences as a transfeminine activist, academic, and slut to interrogate what it means to live in a gendered body in our difficult yet occasionally loving world. With personal essays about the fetishization of trans bodies, recovering from surgery, and losing hope, Florence’s collection celebrates the queer messiness of sex and identity.

Through the embrace of its raw and lyrical prose,Gender/Fuckinginvites the reader into the intimate world of academic smut to ask what it means to be horny on main in a sex-negative world—and what power it might hold.

PRAISE FOR GENDER/FUCKING 

"Working across the fields of law, bioethics, and philosophy, Florence Ashley is already a force to be reckoned with. Now with Gender/Fucking they reveal a more conversational, personal style through erotica, poetry, and a Kierkegaardian engagement with the trans memoir form that achieves the aim of putting the sex back in transsexual. By introducing new ways of thinking about love, sex, relationships, and the impending future, this book meditates on the stigma against daring to have a body—and especially a transfeminine body—in public space."

—Amy Marvin, PhD, author of Laughing at Trans Women: A Theory of Transmisogyny

Florence Ashley (they/them/that bitch) is a transfeminine professor of law and bioethics at the University of Alberta. A prolific transdisciplinary researcher, Florence has mesmerized many academic fields with their incisive style and irreverent footnotes. Their first book was more boringly titled Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis. When not engaged in research or teaching, Florence enjoys speaking French and oversharing on social media.

OFFICIAL RELEASE 2/13/24

ISBN: 9781955904933