Penguin Random House and transgender people
Penguin Random House (PRH) is a publishing conglomerate. They have published a number of important books by trans and gender diverse authors.
Conservative imprints within PRH, including Sentinel and Thesis, have published notable works by anti-trans authors.
Background
Imprints include:
- Crown Publishing Group
- DK (Dorling Kindersley)
- Knopf Doubleday
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Sentinel, founded in 2003 as a conservative imprint
- Thesis, founded in 2022 as an imprint for “idea-driven nonfiction that challenges intellectual orthodoxies and defies easy categorization.”
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Penguin Random House Digital Publishing Group
- Penguin Random House International
- Penguin Random House Publisher Services
- Ebury Publishing
- Book Country digital
- Random House Publishing Group
- Random House Children’s Books
- Sourcebooks
Trans and gender diverse authors
TRANSITIONS: A MOTHER’S JOURNEY by Élodie Durand, Evan McGorray
A SHOT IN THE DARK: A NOVEL by Victoria Lee
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Lettes to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom
WE SEE EACH OTHER: A BLACK, TRANS JOURNEY THROUGH TV AND FILM by Tre’vell Anderson
SUMMER FUN by Jeanne Thornton
MAN O’ WAR by Cory McCarthy
DOOR BY DOOR: HOW SARAH MCBRIDE BECAME AMERICA’S FIRST OPENLY TRANSGENDER SENATOR by Meeg Pincus; Illustrated by Meridth McKean Gimbel
HELL FOLLOWED WITH US by Andrew Joseph White
DETRANSITION, BABY: A NOVEL by Torrey Peters
THE QUEENS’ ENGLISH: THE LGBTQIA+ DICTIONARY OF LINGO AND COLLOQUIAL PHRASES by Chloe O. Davis
SISSY: A COMING-OF-GENDER STORY by Jacob Tobia
CONFESSIONS OF THE FOX: A NOVEL by Jordy Rosenberg
CONTINUUM by Chella Man, Ashley Lukashevsky
BOTH SIDES NOW by Peyton Thomas
THE PASSING PLAYBOOK by Isaac Fitzsimons
BORN READY: THE TRUE STORY OF A BOY NAMED PENELOPE by Jodie Patterson, Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
TOO BRIGHT TO SEE by Kyle Lukoff
MY RAINBOW by DeShanna Neal, Trinity Neal; Illustrated by Art Twink
A Gentleman’s Gentleman by TJ Alexander
Trans History by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett
A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff
Lucy, Uncensored by Mel Hammond and Teghan Hammond
A Sharp Endless Need by Mac (Marisa) Crane
Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner
Bless the Blood by Walela Nehanda
Salt the Water by Candice Iloh
Breathe by Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Grace Needs Space! by Benjamin A. Wilgus and Rii Abrego
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
The Moth Keeper by K. O’Neill
The Ship We Built by Lexie Bean
Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
My Rainbow by DeShanna Neal and Trinity Neal
The Borrow a Boyfriend Club by Page Powars
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye: 9781839768392
Sentinel
Sentinel is a conservative imprint that has published anti-trans authors, including:
- Amy Coney Barrett
- Nick Bilton
- Rod Dreher
- Christine Emba
- Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein
- Coleman Hughes
- Brian Kilmeade
- Jordan Peterson
- Abigail Shrier
- Allie Beth Stuckey
Thesis
Thesis is a “contrarian” imprint that has published anti-trans authors, including:
- Nellie Bowles
- Christine Emba
- Diana Fleischman (announced)
- Coleman Hughes
- Helen Lewis
- Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
- John McWhorter
- Rikki Schlott (announced)
- Jesse Singal (announced)
- Matt Taibbi (announced)
References
Doyle, Jude (February 5, 2024). Eraserhead: On writer’s block and being a gender traitor. https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/eraserhead/
Maher, John (September 21, 2022). Penguin Publishing Group Launches New Imprint, Thesis. Publishers Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/90386-penguin-publishing-group-launches-new-imprint-thesis.html?ref=jude-doyle.ghost.io
Press release (September 21, 2022). PPG’s Portfolio Establishes Thesis, New Imprint Debuting Spring 2023. Penguin Random House https://global.penguinrandomhouse.com/announcements/ppgs-portfolio-establishes-thesis-new-imprint-debuting-spring-2023/
Anti-trans coverage
Singal, Jesse (January 25, 2024). I’m Writing Another Book. And I might want to interview you for it. Singal-Minded https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/im-writing-another-book
Stein, Harry (Summer 2008). The Future of Conservative Books: As mainstream publishers’ flirtation with the Right cools, smaller houses are stepping in. City Journal https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-future-of-conservative-books
Resources
Penguin Random House (penguinrandomhouse.com)
Penguin Publishing Group (penguin.com)
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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