By Diane Ackerman — 2015
The best thing about a book tour is meeting your imagined readers, staring into their lamplit faces, hearing a little about their lives and, for a slender moment anyway, feeling the reciprocity of your trade.
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When I told my family I was trans, one of their initial reactions was, “But you’re so hairy! It’s going to be so difficult to remove all your hair to be a woman, so you should just give up.” They were zeroing in on my body hair as the barrier for me to be seen as feminine.
One of life’s paradoxes is that we are encouraged to “be ourselves,” but are often punished when we do.
We talked to the writer about his debut memoir How We Fight for Our Lives and his move from poetry to prose.
Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?
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