Sisterhood: The Untold Story (published 1990)

This true-life anthology catapulted the author to celebrity status as he explored the helter-skelter world of the "sisters" - the tranvestitles and transsexuals of Singapore. Their masks of mascara and frivolity are stripped bare...from the first stirring realisations of adolescent lust to the terrifying dilemma of sex surgery. Joash Moo shatters the prejudices and taboos of our AIDS-mania age in an honest, never-before revealed insight.

"...the first in local literary history to deal with the social phenomena." 8 Days magazine.

"A sensitive book on transvestites..." The Star newspaper, Malaysia.

 

Nannu: Thoughts on the Sexes and Sexuality (published 1993)

Incorporating provocative subversions of Chinese mytholoy, this anthology of poetry, prose and art delves into the metamorphosis of the sexual. Drawing upon a disquieting range of fantasies, Nannu resonates with primal energy as it dances past notions of phallocentric gender roles and the human labyrinth of raw, subconscious drives.

 

Sisterhood: New Moons Over San Francisco (published 1993)

Drab cover aside, this novel revolves round the fairytale romance of a transsexual Madonna's quest for passionate, transcendental love through the uninhibited streets of San Francisco. Embrace grizzly well-endowed James and sensitive hunky Nick, two men igniting fiery desires she finds impossible to quench!