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A Body Made Home : They Black Trans Love
A Body Made Home : They Black Trans Love
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Author(s): Green, K. Marshall
ISBN No.: 9781558613225
Pages: 232
Year: 202602
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 25.13
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

A memoir and mythography of a Black trans man's invention of self and home, through gender, race, and trans theory made personal In a country built on the daily oppression and incarceration of Black people, on the rejection of queer and trans rights, how does a Black trans man become himself or find home? "Home is commonly understood as a place of bodily safety, a place where one can find themselves a resting place, but for me and for many Black queer folk, our bodies most often preclude any home-making with those kinds of securities." It is this reality that spurred K. Marshall Green's investigation into bodies--and the love between them--discounted by the mainstream as deviant, deficient, and defective. In his powerful debut memoir, Green recounts his lifelong transition from "Baby Girl" to "Black Boi," his current and future self. Laced through his accounts of traversing discrimination, misunderstanding, and abuse from family, society, and academia are experiments in letter writing and biomythography, continuing in the literary tradition of Audre Lorde. Through A Body Made Home, Green explores the long, stuttering arc of transition and reckons with the possibility and fantasy of home as a Black queer person in America, unearthing the truth of transformation and recasting dreams of freedom.


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