Hey Everyone
As you know, I’ve been trying a new thing for me, where I share a book I love and provide a free eBook link to it, if possible.
Why did I pick this book?
I feel it is an essential read, whether or not you have experienced gender-related issues. I’m talking about the book Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam. The author also narrates the audiobook, and you can tell they care about the topic. They take us from the beginning of time to modern history, which showcases how gender has been dealt with and viewed gender throughout time. As we all know, the laws we have today didn’t come out of nowhere. I know this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea to read, as it’s packed with information. I won’t lie, some of it went over my head, which is why I suggest you don’t read in one sitting as I did.
First Lines:
On the night of Monday 8 June 1847, John Sullivan was drunk. Strolling unsteadily down the street in Aldgate, East London, the 22 year-old was wearing a bonnet, a gown, a silk apron, a pair of trousers and a pair of women’s boots. Police Constable Henry Pye’s attention was caught both by this attire and by the bundle John was carrying under one arm. Steering John to the local police station, he opened the bundle to find more items of women’s clothing. Where, he asked John, had these come from?
Goodreads Blurb:
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity
Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.
Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
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Alex
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