So, I recently bought some things for the TG archive. I chipped in to get the original Michel Marie Poulain painting, but I also picked up a few things that I wanted to donate to the community’s knowledge-base.

First of all, I like understanding pop-culture since it seems to serve as a explicit breakpoint in the culture, defining it from previous generations. In other words, pop-culture is, IMHO, a strong indicator of where the zeitgeist was during the evolution of culture.

A strong indicator seems of where the zeitgeist is heading can, I think, be found in teen pop-culture. I think this is the subconscious drive behind all the so-called "Save the children" BS. What do the fringe groups want to save the children from? Well, that’d be the removal of toxic-shame stigma from the GLBT community. They want to preserve heterosexism.

Anyway, I digress… I was interested in adding some of these TG zeitgeist indicators to the archive:

Mantra #1 – 23
	Mantra was published by Malibu Comics in the mid 1990s, until it was purchased by Marvel Comics which promptly killed the publication of Mantra. The story is that a guy (wizard) was killed and reincarnated into the body of a woman with mystical powers. Gender, sexuality and social norms are all explored in the context of this comic. http://www.geocities.com/~mantraverse/

Victor y Victoria, 1957
	Presumably, this is a Spanish remake of the German film, Viktor und Viktoria (1933) which later became the 1982 film, Victor Victoria.

Let Me Die a Woman, 1977
	This is a fake(ish) documentary (kinda like faces of death) exploitation film. The film interviews Dr. Leo Wollman (an actual Dr that worked with TGs) as well as TG people. The film mixes the real interviews with fake surgical scenes that hooked people into gawking at the film.

Ranma 1/2 Cell
	This is an actual production cell from the Ranma 1/2 anime.

Basara # 4 and 6
	FTM manga – deals with themes of gender, sexuality, social norms and the trauma of pretending to be the gender that’s opposite to one’s real gender.

Penguin Revolution # 1- 7
	MTF manga – About a boy (who’s actually famous) who goes to school dressed as a girl. The series deals with questions of truth, boundaries, trust and the personas.

Princess Princess #4
	MTF manga – Another manga about boys who are put into a situation where they learn about cultural gender stratifications. I was only able to find this copy.

Nephilim # 1 – 2
	MTF/FTM manga – This is about someone from a mystical tribe of people who live as male by day and female by night. A hunter of these people falls in love with the female version of this person. The manga explores assumptions about gender, sexuality and homo-transphobia