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Essays by two writers—a trans man and his non-trans mother--document a transition from female to male, and life and family in different genders and generations. This edition is updated with discussion questions.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
AARON RAZ LINK
The Sea
ABC
Love Gets Strange
Rebel without a Cause
Burying Ophelia
Not Coming Out
Psychological Considerations
Surgery I
Still Life with Hormones
A Wonderful Life
The Sex Change
Surgery II
Freaks
Testosterone
Men
Service
Flaunting
The Myth of Fingerprints
Token
My Mother's Ring
HILDA RAZ
The Book and Its Cover
Fact/Fiction
The Letter
Scars
Surgery
Stock
Bias
Pity and Laughter
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Reading Garber
Looking at Aaron
Watching Aaron Teach
Three-Minute Autobiography
Discussion Questions
About the author
Aaron Raz Link has been a writing professor, a science educator for major museums, and a curriculum developer and lead instructor for a National Institutes of Health initiative program supporting diversity in science and medicine. He has also been a day laborer, a puppeteer, and the artistic director of Gorilla Theater, a company of performers from the streets.
Hilda Raz is the author or editor of fourteen books, including her most recent,
Letter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020 (Nebraska, 2021). She is the poetry editor for the University of New Mexico Press,
ABQ (in)Print, and Bosque Press.
Summary
Essays by two writers—a trans man and his non-trans mother--document a transition from female to male, and life and family in different genders and generations. This edition is updated with discussion questions.
