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This Body I Wore
Picador Paper
ISBN13:
9781250867155
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A captivating memoir of one womans long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her. [An] achingly beautiful memoir. Manuel Betancourt, The New York Times Book Review A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity. Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of Shes Not There and Good Boy Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didnt even know they were trans. Diana Goetschs This Body I Wore chronicles one womans long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goetsch, an award-winning poet and essayist, addresses with the power and complexity of lived reality. She brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York Citys Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the citys crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and 90s. Under cover of night, crossdressers risked their jobs and their safety to give expression to urges they could neither control nor understand. Many would become late transitioners, the Cinderellas of the trans community largely ignored by history. Goetsch has written not a transition memoir, but rather a full account of a trans life, one both unusually public and closeted. All too often trans lives are reduced to before-and-after photos, but what if that before photo lasted fifty years?
- | Author: Diana Goetsch
- | Publisher: Picador Paper
- | Publication Date: May 23, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 336 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1250867150
- | ISBN-13: 9781250867155
- Author:
- Diana Goetsch
- Publisher:
- Picador Paper
- Publication Date:
- May 23, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 336 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1250867150
- ISBN-13:
- 9781250867155