Juliet Jacques is a freelance writer who covers gender, sexuality, literature, film and football. One of her top ten transgender books, as shared at the Guardian: Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein (1994)Read about another book on the list.
Sold as “an account of Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from IBM salesperson to playwright and performance artist,” Gender Outlaw made a demand for a new writing style that would help outsiders understand transgender experiences. It politicised the memoir in a bold new way, hooking autobiography into discussions of gender identity and sexuality, transphobia and transgender artists and writers past and present.
--Marshal Zeringue
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