And no, it isn't mood swings or phases, I've always felt very distant from the mainstream cultural binary gender classification. I am conflicted about my own gender, I mostly think I'm a woman but not always. And not too many men write from that point of view I write from the point of view of a used-to-be politically correct, wannabe butch, dyke phone sex hostess, smooth talking, telemarketing, love slave, art slut, pagan tarot reader, maybe soon a grandmother, crystal palming, incense burning, not-man, not always a woman, fast becoming a Marxist. Not too many women write from that point of view. And I wondered why no one was writing my story? I’m writing from the point of view of used-to-be-a-man, three husbands, father, first mate on an oceangoing yacht, minister, high-powered IBM sales type, Pierre Cardin three-piece suitor, bar mitzvahed, circumcised yuppie from the East Coast. I write from the point of view of an S/M transsexual lesbian, ex-cult member, femme top, and sometimes bottom shaman. Because their identity is not just of a trans woman but:
However, I also know that she thinks she still isn't accepted, or they think they still aren't accepted. Not-man not-woman is a lot more clearly defined now while also being incredibly nuanced.Īlthough I'm not trans and therefore cannot speak for the trans community, I know that Bornstein is a well-celebrated trans elder. And that's why I have so much respect for Kate Bornstein and this book despite its many flaws, because they paved the way for me, for us. It was a time when queer people had to use slurs used against them as terms of self-identification because they hadn't mobilized on a large scale yet, they couldn't decide if they should claim back the insults and wear it proudly like a second skin or refute it altogether and craft a new community-based yet individual focused identities. Mostly because queer culture was still grappling with identities, teams, allies and language and all of this on the margins of culture wars. At the time of this book's writing, non-binary wasn't an available category, it wasn't yet in queer lingo.
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