Ultimately, this is a good book that is part memoir and part feminist/social text about being transgender (with a focus on the UK), with some intersectional feminist ideas thrown in.

A. Paris Babita Sharma Barnaby Norman Becka Moor Becky Goddard-Hill Becky Masterman Bella Swift Ben Aaronovitch Ben Clanton Benedict Jacka Ben Grisdale Ben Hubbard Benjamin Percy Ben Mantle Ben Sanders Bernard Marr Beth Greenhough Beth Keane Beth Lincoln Beth Macy Bimmy Talib Bimpe Alliu Black Cultural Archives Bong Dazo Bradley Schmidt Brendan Kearney Brenna Nation Britta Teckentrup Brittney Morris Bronwyn Parry Bruce Hood Bruno Mangyoku Bryan Appleyard C. It's quite funny and self-effacing but remember it is only one human's experience and doesn't reflect the story of everyone. Although she is a fearless champion of trans rights, she is sympathetic towards those who are less courageous, saying: “Look what happened to poor Lucy Meadows, who was a primary teacher like me. This would also be a good starting point if you know someone with a good sense of humor who wants to know more about trans people and trans experiences, or if you just want to read someone funny talking about gender and sexuality. Her 2014 self-help manual, This Book Is Gay, was once challenged by an Alaskan parent who discovered it in a children’s section of the local library.Featuring a vibrant rainbow design, and our super-sized Q logo, you won't find a more stylish way to make a statement. For that reason I felt like this book not only was enjoyable and informative, but it gave me (albeit maybe small) ways to become active and to grow. Englander Elizabeth Kilbey Elizabeth Wein Ella Meek Ellenor Mererid Elliot Ackerman Elly Barnes Elly Griffiths Emily Bornoff Emily G.

I thought I had a pretty open mind, but it has just been opened a little more by this combination of memoir and social commentary by transgender author Juno Dawson. Alice dyes her hair blue and has an “active, app-based sex life with married men from outlying commuter towns”. Juno Dawson (formerly James Dawson; [1] born 10 June 1981) is an English author of young adult fiction and non-fiction.Juno Dawson on sex education: 'Nobody had thought to tell these young people that sex was pleasurable' ". I also felt a bit like she was preaching to the converted in a lot of cases and if I'm reading nonfiction it's because I'm trying to learn something new. Juno doesn't just talk about her transition and her life in this book she shows us two different worlds one how humanity treats cis white men and how humany treats cis white/black woman. This book delivers a very good part-chatty memoir and part-introduction to gender and trans issues within society.

In the end, I think this is certainly a book worth reading and a story worth uncovering and I really do hope that more of these books start to be produced mainstream so that others who are trans or have gender-dysmorphia can find them. Having never read anything by or known much about Juno before I decided that I was going to read this I wasn't sure what to expect. Greene Jeremy Brown Jeremy Williams Jessamy Hawke Jess Butterworth Jessica Spengler Jessie James Jess Rose Jewell Parker Rhodes Jim Cullen Jim Smith Jin Yong Jion Sheibani J N Harris Joan Brady Joanna Nadin Joann Chaney Jo Cotterill Jodi Taylor Jo Dowdall Joe Abercrombie Joe Bennett Joe Earle Joe Guinan Joe Ide Joe McLaren John Ajvide Lindqvist John Brownjohn John C. There was this exhibition in Melbourne about visual representations of Alice,” says Dawson, speaking via Google Hangouts. I enjoyed that the narrator was the author, so her emphasis and tone added nuances to the meaning that made her true meaning clear.I was particularly fascinated by her account of believing herself to be a gay man and the life she led (which is very frank) and she cleverly links her life back to gender and her own sense that something wasn’t right. We would also like to use cookies (including from third-party providers like Google) to monitor site traffic so we can understand our audiences and provide personalised advertising for Book Festival events you may be interested in. To be fair to Dawson, this was published in 2017 and I think information on the harm of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on children and young people was far less easy to obtain, mostly because these are experimental treatments with limited studies to show the long-term effects.