Transgender Nonfiction
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From  A Cautionary TaleFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Coyote describes their recovery from a double mastectomy, arguing that healing demands unlearning masculine self-reliance. | Ivan E. Coyote | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From Between the Boat and the DockFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Coyote discusses the tension between butch and trans male identities and how both communities face a scarcity of representation. | Ivan E. Coyote | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Buller Men and Batty Bwoys:Hidden Men in Toronto and Halifax Black Communities From: In a Queer Country |
In this essay, Wesley Crichlow considers the various dynamics of closeting for black gay men from two cities and from a number of ethnicities. It is an example of contemporary developments in … | Wesley Crichlow | 21 | 2001 | $0.42 Add |
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From Can You See the Difference?:Queerying the Nation, Ethnicity, Festival, and Culture in Winnipeg From: In a Queer Country |
Pauline Greenhill’s contributor’s biography reflects her subject position, unusual in this volume—what her essay describes as "token female heterosexual anthropological … | Pauline Greenhil | 24 | 2001 | $0.48 Add |
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From Challenging Canadian and Queer NationalismsFrom: In a Queer Country |
In "Challenging Canadian and Queer Nationalisms," Gary Kinsman takes issue with the very idea of the conference, that there could be a specific relationship between gays and lesbians … | Gary Kinsman | 31 | 2001 | $0.93 Add |
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From CowboyFrom: 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. | Rae Spoon | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From DangerFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Coyote discusses the emotional toll of existing outside the gender binary. | Ivan E. Coyote | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |
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From Dear FamilyFrom: Gender Failure |
This chapter is Coyote’s letter to their extended family in Vancouver, in which they disclose their non-binary gender identity and their decision to undergo a double mastectomy. | Ivan E. Coyote | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From Do I Still Call Myself a ButchFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Coyote reflects on their identity as a butch. | Ivan E. Coyote | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |
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From Drag FailureFrom: 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. | Rae Spoon | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From Fairy Tales of Two Cities:or Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s) From: In a Queer Country |
Thomas Waugh’s "Fairy Tales of Two Cities: Queer Nation(s)-National Cinema(s)" considers examples from a past when Canadian cinema in general was defining itself, in response to … | Thomas Waugh | 26 | 2001 | $0.52 Add |
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From Family as a Site of Contestation:Queering the Normal or Normalizing the Queer? From: In a Queer Country |
Michelle K. Owen’s essay looks at what recently has become the most prominent aspect of this struggle for recognition. Owen ‘s response is informed and polemical; a scholarship that … | Michelle K. Owen | 22 | 2001 | $0.44 Add |
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 … | Ivan E. Coyote; Rae Spoon | 256 | 2014 | View |
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From Gender RetirementFrom: 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." | Rae Spoon | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From Girl FailureFrom: 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 … | Ivan E. Coyote; Rae Spoon | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From God FailureFrom: Gender Failure |
In this chapter, Spoon describes their childhood in a Pentecostal church in northwest Calgary, where strict gender roles shaped daily life. | Rae Spoon | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
