Trans

A Memoir

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Pub Date 22 Sep 2015 | Archive Date 22 Sep 2015

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“Powerful and engaging.” —New York Times
“Brutally honest and funny.” —Marie Claire
“A lyrical exploration of [Jacques’s] gender journey.” —Guardian

“A marvelously nuanced” transgender memoir, “brilliantly contextualized in the disparate worlds of pop culture, football, mass media, and the NHS” (Kate Bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger).

In July 2012, aged 30, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialized national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics.

Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job, she launches a career as a writer in a publishing culture dominated by London cliques and still figuring out the impact of the Internet. She navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Yet through art, film, music, politics and football, Jacques starts to become the person she had only imagined, and begins the process of transition. Interweaving the personal with the political, her memoir is a powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics, issues which promise to redefine our understanding of what it means to be alive.

Revealing, honest, humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?, in which Jacques and Heti discuss the cruxes of writing and identity.
“Powerful and engaging.” —New York Times
“Brutally honest and funny.” —Marie Claire
“A lyrical exploration of [Jacques’s] gender journey.” —Guardian

“A marvelously nuanced” transgender memoir...

Advance Praise

“Brave and moving, TRANS is necessary reading for anyone who cares about gender, power, freedom and desire. Juliet Jacques deals with the forces of cruelty and ignorance with a hard-won clarity and calm. A vital voice in our turbulent times.”
—Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Spring

TRANS is a marvelously nuanced journey through gender, brilliantly contextualized in the disparate worlds of pop culture, football, mass media, and the NHS. This is a terrific read by an accomplished author.”
—Kate Bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger

“Brave and moving, TRANS is necessary reading for anyone who cares about gender, power, freedom and desire. Juliet Jacques deals with the forces of cruelty and ignorance with a hard-won clarity and...


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