TRANScestors: Navigating LGBTQ+ Aging, Illness, and End of Life Decisions Volume I: Generations of Hope

This volume (and the ones that will follow) have been in the works for some time. What finally emerges after many months of assiduous advertising, recruiting, editing, and organizing is a volume of intimate, nuanced, and heartfelt stories that reflect the wide diversity in the ways in which trans, non-binary, intersex, and Two-Spirit people have come to recognize, signify, embody, and celebrate their differences as their authentic selves. Moreover, with an increasing emphasis on the experiences of trans youth, elders constitute a routinely overlooked, disregarded, and/or silenced segment of the community. In response, this volume documents the myriad ways in which trans elders are coming to terms with the real-life challenges of aging, illness, and end of life decision-making.