Overview
Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspectiveāthe tropes, the presumptionsāPretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.Ā Ā
āI should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body,ā Brookins writes. āEvery day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how Iām perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I canāt change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says āfemale,ā and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it meanāto be a girl-turned-man when youāre something else entirely?āĀ
Informed by KB Brookinsās personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituencyāwhose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as āotherā
This book title, Pretty (A Memoir), ISBN: 9780593537145, by KB Brookins, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (May 28, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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