Rae Spoon

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Cowboy

Cowboy

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon traces their formative bond with cowboy culture in Alberta, centred on their Uncle Carl and the three oil-rig uncles who toiled through the prairie seasons. 8 $0.80 Add
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Drag Failure

Drag Failure

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon describes their brief experiment with a drag persona named Cocolene, born from a music-industry prank in Montreal and Toronto. 5 $0.50 Add
Gender Failure

Gender Failure

Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures. " In their first collaborative book, Ivan … ; 256 View
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Gender Retirement

Gender Retirement

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter Spoon introduces the concept of gender retirement, a refusal to identify within the gender binary, building on their decision to adopt the pronoun "they." 8 $0.80 Add
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Girl Failure

Girl Failure

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, trans masculine writers Spoon and Coyote describe feeling different than other young girls growing up, and their experiences with ostracization for not identifying with … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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God Failure

God Failure

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon describes their childhood in a Pentecostal church in northwest Calgary, where strict gender roles shaped daily life. 8 $0.80 Add
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How I Got to "They"

How I Got to "They"

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Coyote describes their journey from adopting "he" pronouns to choosing the singular "they." 6 $0.60 Add
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How to Be a Transgender Country Singer

How to Be a Transgender Country Singer

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon traces their experience of becoming a transgender country singer in Canada, a journey spanning the mid-2000s through the early 2010s. 10 $1.00 Add
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How to Be a Transgender Indie Rocker

How to Be a Transgender Indie Rocker

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon describes their transition from country and folk singing to electronic indie rock after moving to Weimar, Germany. 8 $0.80 Add
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How to Be Gay When the Gays Won't Have You

How to Be Gay When the Gays Won’t Have You

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon describes their repeated rejection within the gay male community during the mid-to-late 2000s. 6 $0.60 Add
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Introductions

Introductions

From: Gender Failure

In these introductions, trans artists Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon explain how they conceived of a show explicitly centred on trans experience. ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Man Failure, Part 1

Man Failure, Part 1

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon describes their relationship with their body, and recounts a surgical consultation for a bilateral mastectomy. 14 $1.40 Add
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My Body Is a Spaceship

My Body Is a Spaceship

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon traces their evolving relationship with their body, from a Pentecostal childhood marked by bodily restriction to a late-2000s reckoning with gender politics and eating disorders. 8 $0.80 Add
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Prarie Gender

Prarie Gender

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon explains how gender roles in white, working-class Prairie communities shaped their personal identity. 10 $1.00 Add
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Stories I Tell Myself and Others (Gender as Narrative)

Stories I Tell Myself and Others (Gender as Narrative)

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon discusses gender as a narrative one constructs and revises across a lifetime, tracing their movement through identities—lesbian, transgender man, and gender-neutral … 6 $0.60 Add
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Touring Success and Touring Failure

Touring Success and Touring Failure

From: Gender Failure

In this chapter, Spoon discusses the vulnerability of public visibility as a trans performer in small towns and the small moments of connection that make them worth it. 6 $0.60 Add