i'm getting ahead of myself now.

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hi. please help me make a bibliography about passing & the politics related to it. passing of any sort. fiction, biographies, histories, theory, everything. not just good things, things that suck too. even if you think i've read it, write it down anyway so i can compile a thorough list.

okay thanks.

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a few more:

/Trans-sister Radio/, i forget the author; don't remember much about passing there, but it's worth a read; a novel.
I'm quite sure Dorothy Allison's written something about being obviously "white-trash" and not being able to pass, classwise. It's all over her work.
/Normal/, Amy Bloom, which i haven't read.
/Becoming a Man/, Paul Monette, is all about learning to pass for a higher class via education; also about learning to pass for straight at a private boys' school.

Flannery O'Connor, whose work I don't know well, might have written something that concerns passing in a religious context, having been Catholic in the Protestant South. If you find anything, do let me know :)

Hm, and some of the essays in /Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South/ may also relate; haven't opened that book in a while.