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Not by any governmental or cultural body,\" Brookins writes. \"Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female,' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean--to be a girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Informed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, \u003ci\u003ePretty\u003c\/i\u003e is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency--whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. 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The powerful lines, the no-holds-barred voice, and risk-taking candor of these dynamic debut poems make the reader hungry for a whole volume.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"The poems in How to Identify Yourself with a Wound pull no punches. Raw honesty paired with concise language inhabit and fully embody a life shaped by the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and gender. This is my favorite kind of poetry, necessary and urgent, revealing and saving and healing and re-creating both poet and reader.\" -\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395627782417,"sku":"CIN1952224136G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50404585373969,"sku":"CIN1952224136VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51056667066641,"sku":"NIN9781952224133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52516590878993,"sku":"NLS9781952224133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1952224136.jpg?v=1750901172"},{"product_id":"pretty-book-kb-brookins-9780593684887","title":"Pretty","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award * By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective--the tropes, the presumptions--\u003ci\u003ePretty\u003c\/i\u003e is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I should be able to define myself, but I am not. 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