Seeks to show the world the sheer variety of ways being non cisgender can be a beautiful, joyful experience, featuring essays from 15 trans, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, and intersex authors, as well as several essays from author and trans woman Laura Kate Dale

Product Code: 8951
ISBN: 9781800180567
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Unbound
Pages: 320
Published Date: 04/19/2022
Availability:In stock
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Price: $15.95

So often when we see pop culture portrayals of trans people’s lives, hear stories shared by trans people about their transitions, or accounts by the media about trans people’s lives, those stories focus on misery and discomfort. Gender dysphoria, a feeling of deep discomfort with your birth-assigned gender, is a powerful catalyst for many non-cisgender people coming out or transitioning, but it’s not the be all and end all of our experiences.

For many non cisgender people, it’s not gender dysphoria that pushes forward transition, but gender euphoria, a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from that birth-assigned gender. It’s that joy the first time a parent calls you by your new chosen name, or the first time you have the confidence to cut your hair short like you’ve always wanted, joy at embracing the self.

Featuring essays from 15 trans, non-binary, agender, gender fluid, and intersex authors, as well as several essays from author and trans woman Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy from Trans, Non Binary and Intersex Writers seeks to show the world the sheer variety of ways being non cisgender can be a beautiful, joyful experience.

Laura Kate Dale has experienced countless moments of elation, pride, confidence, freedom, and ecstasy as a direct result of coming out as a trans woman the better part of a decade ago, and she is not alone. There are countless stories from trans, non binary, agender, gender fluid, and intersex people about the ways that coming to terms with gender brought unimaginable happiness and love into lives.

The anthology will contain essays from a vast array of non-cisgender writers of different orientations, backgrounds, and with a varied selection of experiences to share.

Do you need some stories of joy in your life, or know someone who does? Pledge here to make this book a reality and bring a little more gender euphoria to the world.


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Contents

Introduction
Becoming Prom King: How My Classmates Showed Their Support for My Transition Oliver Jones
Gender-Creative Parenting and Me Halo Jedha Dawn
The First Signs Hormones Were Working for Me Laura Kate Dale
My Mr’s Mr: Ensuring I Got a Gender-Affirming Wedding Miles Nelson
Escaping the Monochrome Closet at Pride Jane Aerith Magnet
Loving My Deep Voice as Performance Rather Than Default Laura Kate Dale
The Euphoria That Lies in Revolt: Loving Myself While Living in Brazil Julia F. Candida
The Gender of Language: Finding a Pronoun for My Identity Teddy Sweet
Mentally Rewriting Life Before SurgeryLaura Kate Dale
Life at the Trans-Intersex Intersection Mari Wrobi
Gender Affirmation Through Girly SleepoversLaura Kate Dale
Clippers and Clarity: Cutting My Own Hair for the First TimeParker Armando Deckard
The Tipping Point: Getting Correctly Gendered Without Making an EffortLaura Kate Dale
Punks Against Gender Conformity: Being Agender in the Punk Scene Koda Strider
Playing Roller Derby on an All-Girls TeamLaura Kate Dale
Fashion, Gender and Not Knowing You’re Non-Binary in Nigeria Olu Niyi-Awosusi
The Myth of the Yak: Learning to Love My Body HairYas Lime
Growing to Appreciate Myself in Photographs Laura Kate Dale
The Gates to Jannah: Balancing Transitioning and My Faith Jaden Hameed
Adrenaline Fix: Turning Masculine Pursuits Into Feminine IdentitySamara-Jade Sendek
The Empowering Magic of Affirming ID Laura Kate Dale
Epidermis: Tattoos and Transmasculine Selfhood Emmett Nahil
Feeling Safe and Welcome, and Seen by My Teen IdolsLaura Kate Dale
Transition in Lockdown: Shaving and Growth William Keohane Drunken Compliments and Body Positivity in the Club Laura Kate Dale Being Daddy: Sex, Gender, Kink and Everything In BetweenMxtress Luna

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