I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya Gurt dog press Albion Saint-Richter

Albion Saint-Richter

Thomas Korsgaard

The story is supposed to be over

Royster also explores her memories of the matriarchs of her childhood and the homes these women created in Chicago’s South Side—itself a dynamic character in the memoir—where “family” was fluid

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I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya Gurt dog press Albion Saint-RichterHardcover. Penguin Canada. 2022. New Condition. 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 re imagine 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