Emerging Selves: An Exploration of Gender Identity

by Nillin Lore

Exploring the diverse narratives of those questioning, discovering, or well on their transition journeys, Emerging Selves is a vibrant collection of own-voices personal essays from trans, nonbinary, and gender diverse authors. Offering intimate insight into the emerging self from first awakening to wholehearted knowing and everything in between, Emerging Selves examines what it means to live your truth even when who you are and how you live disrupts the social construct of gender.

Whether you’re going through it all too, or just wanting to learn more to better love your loved ones, this collection is for you.

Paperback

Published January 13, 2026

About the author

Mx. Nillin Lore is an AuDHD, OSDD, Canadian, queer, polyamorous, demiboy and disabled author of queer and gender diverse self-empowerment books. Their first major release, "How Do I Sexy? A Guide for Trans and Nonbinary Queers," was a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Gold Winner for LGBTQ+ Adult Nonfiction. Nillin is now hard at work writing "Carry On: Unpacking Your Internalized Transphobic and Queerphobic Baggage" and "Nonmonogamy and Queer Inclusivity," both of which release in early 2026.