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Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Riveting, rousing, and utterly real, Surpassing Certainty is a portrait of a young woman searching for her purpose and place in the world--without a road map to guide her. The journey begins a few months before her twentieth birthday. Janet Mock is adjusting to her days as a first-generation college student at the University of Hawaii and her nights as a dancer at a strip club. Finally content in her body, she vacillates between flaunting and concealing...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"These portraits, taken in the heart of Greenwich Village's most famous street, where lines of gender identity are dramatically blurred, brought [Seliger] back to his roots and his love for documentary and environmental portraiture"--Front jacket flap.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in the earlier days of the AIDS crisis, this groundbreaking series follows the triumphs, tragedies, and heartbreaks of the legends and icons of New York's underground ball culture. With the largest cast of transgender actors in series regular roles, Pose features glamorous, gripping, and relevant stories. In its final season time flashes forward to 1994, and the ballroom feels like a distant memory to Blanca who's struggling to balance being a...
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Language
English
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Chosen as one of the New York Times's ten best books in the year of its original publication, this collection immediately won a cherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino into the ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author; illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Jean Serjeant, the heroine of Julian Barnes's wonderfully provocative novel, seems ordinary, but has an extraordinary disdain for wisdom. And as Barnes-winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending-follows her from her childhood in the 1920s to her flight into the sun in the year 2021, he confronts readers with the fruits of her relentless curiosity: pilgrimages to China and the Grand Canyon; a catalogue of 1940s sexual euphemisms; and...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In a landmark book, an extraordinary young woman recounts her coming-of-age as a transgender teen--a deeply personal and empowering portrait of self-revelation, adversity, and heroism. In 2011, Marie Claire magazine published a profile of Janet Mock in which she publicly stepped forward for the first time as a trans woman. Since then, Mock has gone from covering the red carpet for People.com to advocating for all those who live within the shadows...
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