I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya
Named a Best Book by- The Globe and Mail, Indigo, Out Magazine, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, Writers' Trust of Canada, Autostraddle, Bitch, and BookRiot.Finalist for the 2019Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction
Nominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award
Winner of the 2018Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design - Prose Non-Fiction
"Cultural rocket fuel." --Vanity Fair
"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind." --Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers and Milk and Honey
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl--and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century.
Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak.
Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate. I'm Afraid of Men is a journey from camouflage to a riot of colour and a blueprint for how we might cherish all that makes us different and conquer all that makes us afraid.
Vivek Shraya is a writer, musician, performer, and filmmaker from India. He has been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards three times, and his prior works include the novel Woman of the Mountains and the YA novel God Loves Hair. He has performed and read at events, festivals, and post-secondary schools all around the world.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780735235939 |
| ISBN 10 | 0735235937 |
| Title | I'm Afraid of Men |
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Prentice Hall Press |
| Year published | 2018-08-28 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Lambda Literary Award 2019, Nominated for OLA Evergreen Award 2019 |
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