release by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2023
A FIERY AND REVEALING DEBUT MEMOIR ABOUT GENDER AND SENSUALITY
Cover art by Jazmin Welch
Book cover image of “Transland” by Mx. Sly. A large green face looks down from the top of the cover. It is drawn in a flat style. Their features are outlined in red, and shadows are depicted with red dot grains. There is light duct tape covering their mouth. A much smaller figure is suspended in front of the face, from the bottom of the cover. The figure is a very deep magenta, and they are suspended from bondage rope around their lower stomach so their body is hanging in front of the larger figure’s face. Dark stippled shadows appear on the bottom of the suspended figure. The background is black. The title, “Transland,” is on top of the larger face in a large white compressed block font and extends from edge to edge of the cover. The edges of the letters on either side have green shading stippled into them. The subtitle, “Consent, Kink & Pleasure,” is in deep magenta in the bottom left, and the author’s name, “Mx. Sly,” is in green in the bottom right corner.
“Powerfully raw and kinky in all the best ways. I was so emotionally invested. This
memoir is fucking amazing.”
TRANSLAND: Consent, Kink & Pleasure
by Mx. Sly
available in Canada & USA as of October 17, 2023
and in Australia as of November 1, 2023
TRANSLAND by Mx. Sly
is published in paperback and ebook form by ARSENAL PULP PRESS
TRANSLAND by Mx. Sly
is published in audiobook form by ECW Press
and is narrated by Sebastian Marziali
“Mx. Sly brings unapologetic sexuality, a keen sense of detail, and emotional rawness to their work. It’s the type of storytelling that’s prone to leave audiences equal parts nervous and turned on.”
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A memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective
TRANSLAND is a fiery and revealing memoir that delves into what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that fetish communities come with just as many problematic rules, expectations, and hierarchies as mainstream ones.
Moving from wide-eyed optimism that the fetish community is the promised land to realizing the ways fetish communities—even queer ones—reinforce the commodification of bodies, Mx. Sly examines how BDSM helped them understand and articulate their gender, how kink helped them turn shameful experiences into liberating ones, and how they became disillusioned with the BDSM scene—without rejecting the lessons fetish taught them.
The stories in this memoir explore PTSD, intergenerational trauma, memory, consent, gender transition and diversity, queer relationships and subculture, and a lot of bondage. From dating a charismatic Toronto femmedom to being bone bros with an Aussie rope bondage expert, TRANSLAND is an odyssey of kinky hookups and gender euphoria and a wandering quest through sensuality toward personal strength and self-reliance.
Sexy, gutting, graphic, and existential, TRANSLAND is about finding oneself through intense sensations, reaching a point where being hit has diminishing returns, and coming out wiser on the other side.