Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968 Letters Assotto Saint draws upon music

Assotto Saint draws upon music and incantation

"Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders

beautiful writing

Pissing in a River captures the glee and turbulence of surviving the cacophony of modern life

many based on real people

Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968 Letters Assotto Saint draws upon musicIn the 1950s and '60s, an underground network of transgender women, gender nonconforming people, and men who dressed as women found refuge at a modest house in the Catskills, New York. Known as Casa Susanna, the house provided a safe place to express their true selves and live for a few days as they had always dreamed dressed as and living as women without fear of being incarcerated or institutionalized for their self expression. Casa Susanna opens up