No Poster Boy: Trans Fag Essays
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (996 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0997216026 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 86 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His humorous and sobering writing is eye-opening to outsiders and validating to those who share his experiences. Outsider. No Poster Boy is a collection of his most accessible, intimate, and daring essays on the subject of an underrepresented population: transgender men who are attracted to men. His dynamic fiction and memoir writing has been informed by his experiences as a young transgender man contending with discrimination, poverty, mental illness, trauma and sexual identity. Nonbinary. Neuroatypical. No Poster Boy. Workingclass. Elliott DeLine is an award-winning author of Refuse, I Know Very Well How I Got My Name, and Show Trans. Speaking from a place outside academia, outside metropolitan queer life, and challenging to mainstream puff-trans-politics, “Elliott DeLine is of the most searingly honest voices in this ex
"It will touch your heart" according to Don Collings. Growing up in a small conservative southern town, I was an odd kid, did not fit in anywhere, and I was blissfully unaware of it. Then came college, and my bubble shattered. I spent so much time watching, adjusting, questioning how to fit in with the "regular guys" and it became an obsession. Self doubt ate my joy. Nonconformit