trans literature

7 articles sont étiquetés trans literature.

wild geese

Read Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel

Wild Geese tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scandinavia with her anxious dog, Dolly. Overeducated and underpaid, Phoebe is finally settling into her new life when she unexpectedly reconnects with her first and only girlfriend from before her transition, igniting memories she thought she’d left behind.

Wild Geese is a novel about my ex a trans woman who accidentally rekindles an old flame with the ex she had pre-transition. Together, they walk through Copenhagen, the city where Phoebe, the protagonist, moved from Dublin. Her ex visits for the first time. They spend the weekend together, dissecting their old life and their…

bellies

Read Bellies by Nicola Dinan

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at a university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a charming young playwright, Ming is the perfect antidote to Tom’s awkward energy, and their connection is instant. Tom finds himself deeply and desperately drawn into Ming’s orbit, and on the cusp of graduation, he’s already mapped out their future together. But, shortly after they move to London to start their next chapter, Ming announces her intention to transition.

From London to Kuala Lumpur, New York to Cologne, we follow Tom and Ming as they face shifts in their relationship in the wake of Ming’s transition. Through a spiral of unforeseen crises – some personal, some professional, some life-altering – Tom and Ming are forced to confront the vastly different shapes their lives have taken since graduating, and each must answer the essential question: is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are?

This novel is told in two points of views, Tom and Ming’s. The narrator isn’t always clearly identified from the start, so it sometimes took me a paragraph or two to realize that a new person was talking. I liked the way that the same thing was shown from two very, very different points of…

Transitions: journal d’Anne Marbot

Read Transitions: journal d’Anne Marbot by Elodie Durand

« Vous savez, les genres féminin et masculin sont les deux extrêmes d’un état. Chacun est libre de mettre le curseur où il veut, où il peut. » Les mots de la psychologue du planning familial bousculent Anne. Elle n’a rien vu venir. Sa fille est un garçon… Anne bataille, se déconstruit, apprend, s’ajuste à son enfant, pour se fabriquer un autre regard, un nouveau paradigme.

Je pense qu’il était important pour moi de comprendre comment le vivent les parents. Je pense que ça va mieux, maintenant. J’ai passé un très mauvais moment, je recommande. (Plus sérieusement, ça m’a permis de faire preuve d’un peu d’empathie, et je vais l’offrir à ma mère : pour une personne trans, le mégenrage et…

Yes, you are trans enough

Read Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love by Mia Violet

This is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who never fitted in. Transgender blogger Mia Violet reflects on her life and how at 26 she came to finally realise she was ‘trans enough’ to be transgender, after years of knowing she was different but without the language to understand why.

From bullying, heartache and a botched coming out attempt, through to counselling, Gender Identity Clinics and acceptance, Mia confronts the ins and outs of transitioning, using her charged personal narrative to explore the inaccuracies of trans representation and confront what the media has gotten wrong.

📖 À 26 ans, Mia Violet a compris qu’elle était « assez trans » pour être une femme. Dans cette autobiographie, cette blogueuse britannique revient sur son enfance, sur ce sentiment diffus mais vraiment pas évident qu’elle était différente, qu’elle ne trouvait pas sa place. Elle reprend l’histoire de sa transition et la mélange avec des conseils…

Ana on the Edge

Read Ana on the Edge by A.J. Sass

Twelve-year-old Ana-Marie Jin, the reigning US Juvenile figure skating champion, is not a frilly dress kind of kid. So, when Ana learns that next season’s program will be princess themed, doubt forms fast. Still, Ana tries to focus on training and putting together a stellar routine worthy of national success.

Once Ana meets Hayden, a transgender boy new to the rink, thoughts about the princess program and gender identity begin to take center stage. And when Hayden mistakes Ana for a boy, Ana doesn’t correct him and finds comfort in this boyish identity when he’s around. As their friendship develops, Ana realizes that it’s tricky juggling two different identities on one slippery sheet of ice. And with a major competition approaching, Ana must decide whether telling everyone the truth is worth risking years of hard work and sacrifice.

Sweet children’s book that talks about figuring yourself out, and how hard it is to come out to your loved ones. Special love for the attention to figure skating – the book is about a skater, it’s not just a pretext for the story, it actually matters. this is rare enough in figure skating stories…

Girl, Woman, Other

Read Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley’s former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole’s mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter’s lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class.

📖 Dans ce roman chorale, chaque chapitre est divisé en trois parties. Chaque partie est racontée du point de vue d’une personne, généralement une femme, et chaque chapitre présente trois points de vue sur des mêmes événements, par exemple avec une femme, sa mère et sa fille, ou une femme, son enseignante de lycée et…