Mostly written before the current cultural visibility of trans lit, Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 is Salah’s
prescient contribution to a canon of self-determined literature that explores transness. In this
case, the author sidesteps the “I” in the text and instead draws on archives—sexological,
anthropological, psychological, among others—to demonstrate the shifting and shifty nature of
our identities, affiliations, and narratives.