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| Original Title: | Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities ASIN B015ETEJIU |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Nominee (2016) |
Jackson Wright Shultz
Kindle Edition | Pages: 232 pages Rating: 4.37 | 130 Users | 29 Reviews
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| Title | : | Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities |
| Author | : | Jackson Wright Shultz |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 232 pages |
| Published | : | September 22nd 2015 by Dartmouth |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. LGBT. Writing. Essays. Transgender. Autobiography. Memoir. GLBT. Queer |
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This book is fantastic. It gave space to trans people from different communities, age groups, ethnicity and socio-economic background to talk about the different aspects of being trans. It covers way more than solely the narrative of transitioning. There is so much to dissect and it gives room for more questions and discussions. I'm already contemplating a future re-read. I want to quickly note how this book also offers a great glossary for general and medical terms as well as a lot of resources.Rating Out Of Books Trans/Portraits: Voices from Transgender Communities
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I snapped this up when I saw it on display at my library as part of a Pride Month display. The format was not what I expected. Instead of introducing a person and have each chapter be an essay by that person, the author interviewed 30+ transgender individuals and then grouped their comments by topic, from coming out, to challenges in the workplace, to activism, to intersectionality. I loved that the editor included a wide range of folks from MtF individuals who had full top and bottom surgery toThis was a very moving book. It's a collection of essays by 30-something transgender individuals, only their experiences are broken up based on various themes. I thought this worked better than offering big, long essays one after another. You get to see how different people's experiences vary, and you hear about them in their own words.It's a must-read for anyone who wants to be a good ally, as well as those who might be going through the process themselves. It was very eye-opening to follow so
I was surprised how much I liked this book, especially given my past negative impressions of collections of interviews with various trans people. The editor did a very good job of selecting a wide variety of trans people from different backgrounds and with different identities (including several disabled ones, a Native American, and a transfeminine non-binary person). It was certainly depressing to be reminded of how much things still suck for a large part of the trans community, and just how
Oh dear. This book had the absolutely opposite effect on me that I am sure it was intended to. I began it with a typical liberal 'it's all good' view of this issue. By the time I finished it I was calling shenanigans on the whole thing. A big part of it was the complete self absorption of the writers. Now I know they are suffering - that is real and genuine and came across in the writing. I know I can't imagine their struggle and I know that #thestruggleisreal. And yet. I have read books by many
This book represents the nuanced nature of gender identity and intersectionality, and how there is no "correct" way to be trans. The author did a wonderful job of speaking to many different people of varying gender identities, sexualities, (dis)abilities, education levels, race, ethnicity, and class, and how these identities are all intersecting.
This book is fantastic. It gave space to trans people from different communities, age groups, ethnicity and socio-economic background to talk about the different aspects of being trans. It covers way more than solely the narrative of transitioning. There is so much to dissect and it gives room for more questions and discussions. I'm already contemplating a future re-read. I want to quickly note how this book also offers a great glossary for general and medical terms as well as a lot of
I snapped this up when I saw it on display at my library as part of a Pride Month display. The format was not what I expected. Instead of introducing a person and have each chapter be an essay by that person, the author interviewed 30+ transgender individuals and then grouped their comments by topic, from coming out, to challenges in the workplace, to activism, to intersectionality. I loved that the editor included a wide range of folks from MtF individuals who had full top and bottom surgery to
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