This Body I Wore A Memoir
eAudio - 2022
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 didn't even know they were trans. Diana Goetsch's This Body I Wore chronicles one woman's 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 truth 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 belov...ed teacher at Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the crossdressing subculture of New York 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...
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- Published
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Tantor Media, Inc.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Online Access
- OverDrive Resource Page
- Format
- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook | |
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File Size | 312 GB |
Parts | 11 |
ISBN | 9798765012734 |
Release Date | 6/14/2022 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 312 GB |
ISBN | 9798765012734 |
Release Date | 6/14/2022 |