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Author |
: Jo Ivester |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2020-04-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781631528873 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1631528874 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Never a Girl, Always a Boy by : Jo Ivester
Jeremy Ivester is a transgender man. Thirty years ago, his parents welcomed him into the world as what they thought was their daughter. As a child, he preferred the toys and games our society views as masculine. He kept his hair short and wore boys’ clothing. They called him a tomboy. That’s what he called himself. By high school, when he showed no interest in flirting, his parents thought he might be lesbian. At twenty, he wondered if he was asexual. At twenty-three, he surgically removed his breasts. A year later, he began taking the hormones that would lower his voice and give him a beard—and he announced his new name and pronouns. Never a Girl, Always a Boy is Jeremy’s journey from childhood through coming out as transgender and eventually emerging as an advocate for the transgender community. This is not only Jeremy’s story but also that of his family, told from multiple perspectives—those of the siblings who struggled to understand the brother they once saw as a sister, and of the parents who ultimately joined him in the battle against discrimination. This is a story of acceptance in a world not quite ready to accept.
Author |
: Jo Ivester |
Publisher |
: SparkPress |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1631528866 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781631528866 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Once a Girl, Always a Boy by : Jo Ivester
In his mid-twenties, Jeremy Ivester began taking testosterone and had surgery to remove his breasts. This memoir is both Jeremy's and his family's coming out story, told from multiple perspectives--a story of acceptance in a world not quite ready to accept.
Author |
: Laurie Frankel |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2017-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250088550 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250088550 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Is How It Always Is by : Laurie Frankel
"This is Claude. He's five years old, the youngest of five brothers. He also loves peanut butter sandwiches. He also loves wearing a dress, and dreams of being a princess.When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl. Rosie and Penn want Claude to be whoever Claude wants to be. They're just not sure they're ready to share that with the world. Soon the entire family is keeping Claude's secret. Until one day it explodes."--
Author |
: Jo Ivester |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2015-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781631529658 |
ISBN-13 |
: 163152965X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Outskirts of Hope by : Jo Ivester
In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town. In The Outskirts of Hope, Ivester uses journals left by her mother, as well as writings of her own, to paint a vivid, moving, and inspiring portrait of her family’s experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement.
Author |
: Jackson Bird |
Publisher |
: Tiller Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2020-08-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982130770 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982130776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sorted by : Jackson Bird
An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties. When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as a transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection. Assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. Jackson didn’t share this thought with anyone because he didn’t think he could share it with anyone. Growing up in Texas in the 1990s, he had no transgender role models. He barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay, let alone being taught that transgender people existed outside of punchlines. In this “soulful and heartfelt coming-of-age story” (Jamia Wilson, director and publisher of the Feminist Press), Jackson chronicles the ups and downs of growing up gender confused. Illuminated by journal entries spanning childhood to adolescence to today, he candidly recalls the challenges and loneliness he endured as he came to terms with both his gender and his bisexual identity. With warmth and wit, Jackson also recounts how he navigated the many obstacles and quirks of his transition––like figuring out how to have a chest binder delivered to his NYU dorm room and having an emotional breakdown at a Harry Potter fan convention. From his first shot of testosterone to his eventual top surgery, Jackson lets you in on every part of his journey—taking the time to explain trans terminology and little-known facts about gender and identity along the way. “A compassionate, tender-hearted, and accessible book for anyone who might need a hand to hold as they walk through their own transition or the transition of a loved one” (Austin Chant, author of Peter Darling), Sorted demonstrates the power and beauty in being yourself, even when you’re not sure who “yourself” is.
Author |
: Marlo Mack |
Publisher |
: The Experiment |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2021-10-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781615197989 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1615197982 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Be a Girl by : Marlo Mack
Friends and family, experts, and Mack herself had long downplayed her "son's" requests for pretty dresses and long hair as a phase. When three-year-old little “M” begs, weeping, to be reborn, Mack knows she has to start listening to her kid. This is an unflinching memoir of M’s coming out-- to her father, grandparents, classmates, and the world. Fearful of the prejudice that menaces M’s future, Mack finds her liberal values surprisingly challenged, and comes to realize it's really the world that has a lot to learn-- from her sparkly, spectacular M. -- adapted from back cover
Author |
: Kathleen Marple Kalb |
Publisher |
: Kensington Books |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2020-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496727299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496727290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Fatal Finale by : Kathleen Marple Kalb
On the cusp of the twentieth century, Manhattan is a lively metropolis buzzing with talent. But after a young soprano meets an untimely end on stage, can one go-getting leading lady hit the right notes in a case of murder? New York City, 1899. When it comes to show business, Gilded Age opera singer Ella Shane wears the pants. The unconventional diva breaks the mold by assuming “trouser roles”—male characters played by women—and captivating audiences far and wide with her travelling theatre company. But Ella’s flair for the dramatic takes a terrifying turn when an overacting Juliet to her Romeo drinks real poison during the final act of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi. Weeks after the woman’s death is ruled a tragic accident, a mysterious English duke arrives in Greenwich Village on a mission. He’s certain someone is getting away with murder, and the refined aristocrat won’t travel back across the Atlantic until Ella helps him expose the truth. As Ella finds herself caught between her craft and a growing infatuation with her dashing new acquaintance, she’s determined to decode the dark secrets surrounding her co-star’s fatale finale—before the lights go dark and the culprit appears for an encore . . . [Author Photo] Kathleen Marple Kalb lives with her family in Cheshire, Connecticut. She’s currently a weekend morning anchor at New York's 1010WINS Radio, capping a career she began as a teenage DJ in rural Western Pennsylvania. She’s currently working on the next Ella Shane historical mystery. Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.com
Author |
: Frances McArthur Cummings |
Publisher |
: AuthorHouse |
Total Pages |
: 120 |
Release |
: 2005-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781463479022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1463479026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Girl Who Never Quit by : Frances McArthur Cummings
Frances M. Cummings intimate autobiography, TheGirl Who Never Quit,describes her humble beginnings in rural growing up as the fourteenth child on the farm and picking cotton at age four. You will meet a child far beyond her years who at five years of age in second grade was ready to meet the challenges head-on and be more than a conqueror. This book takes the reader through ten phases of her life from birth to sixty-three years of age. You will read what Francessays about herself and why she was determined to not be deterred from achieving her goals. You will share her experiences as a change agentbringing about integration, marching on the African Embassy, surviving gunshots as a legislatorwhile being empowered to know there is wholeness and beauty in life after divorce. Franceshas always been motivated to be a leader and made every attempt to manifest character, competence, composure, and courage in reaching her goals on lifes pathway. It was not easy, she says, however, she felt confident and secure in her belief and faith. The Girl Who Never Quitis an extraordinary testimony of the power of faith and determination to overcome lifes insurmountable obstacles. Franceslife story affirms that Almighty Gods grace sets us free and makes us whole in our walk with Him and in our heart.
Author |
: Lori Duron |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2013-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780770437718 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0770437710 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Raising My Rainbow by : Lori Duron
Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron’s frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her family's adventures of distress and happiness raising a gender-creative son. Whereas her older son, Chase, is a Lego-loving, sports-playing boy's boy, Lori's younger son, C.J., would much rather twirl around in a pink sparkly tutu, with a Disney Princess in each hand while singing Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi." C.J. is gender variant or gender nonconforming, whichever you prefer. Whatever the term, Lori has a boy who likes girl stuff—really likes girl stuff. He floats on the gender-variation spectrum from super-macho-masculine on the left all the way to super-girly-feminine on the right. He's not all pink and not all blue. He's a muddled mess or a rainbow creation. Lori and her family choose to see the rainbow. Written in Lori's uniquely witty and warm voice and launched by her incredibly popular blog of the same name, Raising My Rainbow is the unforgettable story of her wonderful family as they navigate the often challenging but never dull privilege of raising a slightly effeminate, possibly gay, totally fabulous son. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content
Author |
: Amy Ellis Nutt |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2015-10-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812995428 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812995422 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Becoming Nicole by : Amy Ellis Nutt
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiring true story of transgender actor and activist Nicole Maines, whose identical twin brother, Jonas, and ordinary American family join her on an extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all. Nicole appears as TV’s first transgender superhero on CW’s Supergirl When Wayne and Kelly Maines adopted identical twin boys, they thought their lives were complete. But by the time Jonas and Wyatt were toddlers, confusion over Wyatt’s insistence that he was female began to tear the family apart. In the years that followed, the Maineses came to question their long-held views on gender and identity, to accept Wyatt’s transition to Nicole, and to undergo a wrenching transformation of their own, the effects of which would reverberate through their entire community. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt spent almost four years reporting this story and tells it with unflinching honesty, intimacy, and empathy. In her hands, Becoming Nicole is more than an account of a courageous girl and her extraordinary family. It’s a powerful portrait of a slowly but surely changing nation, and one that will inspire all of us to see the world with a little more humanity and understanding. Named One of the Ten Best Books of the Year by People • One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and Men’s Journal • A Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction “Fascinating and enlightening.”—Cheryl Strayed “If you aren’t moved by Becoming Nicole, I’d suggest there’s a lump of dark matter where your heart should be.”—The New York Times “Exceptional . . . ‘Stories move the walls that need to be moved,’ Nicole told her father last year. In telling Nicole’s story and those of her brother and parents luminously, and with great compassion and intelligence, that is exactly what Amy Ellis Nutt has done here.”—The Washington Post “A profoundly moving true story about one remarkable family’s evolution.”—People “Becoming Nicole is a miracle. It’s the story of a family struggling with—and embracing—a transgender child. But more than that, it’s about accepting one another, and ourselves, in all our messy, contradictory glory.”—Jennifer Finney Boylan, former co-chair of GLAAD and author of She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders