Rae Spoon
Autore di Gender Failure
Sull'Autore
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-wirrning writers and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and mostra altro assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all. mostra meno
Opere di Rae Spoon
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- nonbinary
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Utenti
- 361
- Popolarità
- #66,480
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 12
- ISBN
- 9
- Lingue
- 1
That's partly for intensely personal reasons: my own butch-identified top surgery was in February 2014, two months before "Gender Failure" was published, and after years of desperate searching for people who had made a similar journey. I felt a peculiar kind of hollowness as I read Coyote's words about the decision and the process (both emotional and bureaucratic), knowing how much it would have meant to me six months before, and not quite feeling it.
It's also political: Spoon and Coyote are (like me) the kind of white masculine-presenting female-assigned people who get undue attention in trans (and queer) communities, who take up so much of the airtime that people of color, trans women, and transfeminine people can hardly get a word in edgewise. Coyote at least makes an effort to talk about the disparity. Spoon seems... oblivious. One more work of white transmasculine memoir doesn't literally take the place of the books that non-white, non-transmasc trans people are writing, but that doesn't exactly let them off the hook either.… (altro)