Extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture
Juliet Jacques is best known for the Guardian's 'Transgender Journey', a column longlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2011. A regular contributor to the New Statesman, she has also written for Granta, TimeOut, Filmwaves, 3am, the London Review of Books, the New Humanist, the New Inquiry, and many other publications. She lives in London.
Trans challenges us all, no matter what our gender or sexuality.
Ultimately, it makes us look at ourselves, and wonder what price we
pay for the identities we assume, or which we have thrust upon
us.
*New Statesman*
Juliet Jacques's Trans ... provides a lyrical exploration of her
own gender journey against the background of increasing media
interest in transgender issues. Thoughtful and intimate, it's a
fine successor to books such as Jan Morris's Conundrum.
*Guardian*
Powerful and engaging. . . it's hard not to see her as anything
other than brave, even as she pushes readers to recognize that what
is revolutionary is the very ordinariness of her day-to-day
life
*New York Times*
Brutally honest and funny.
*Marie Claire*
Provides a lyrical exploration of her own gender journey against
the background of increasing media interest in transgender issues.
Thoughtful and intimate, it's a fine successor to books such as Jan
Morris's Conundrum
*Helen Lewis, Guardian, Books of the Year*
Challenges us all, no matter what our gender or sexuality.
Ultimately, it makes us look at our selves, and wonder what price
we pay for the identities we assume, or which we have thrust upon
us.
*Philip Hoare, New Statesman*
Brave and moving, Trans is necessary reading for anyone who cares
about gender,power, freedom and desire. Juliet Jacques deals with
the forces of cruelty andignorance with hard-won clarity and calm.
A vital voice in our turbulent times
*Olivia Laing, author of The Trip to Echo Spring*
Amarvelously nuanced journey through gender, brilliantly
contextualized in thedisparate worlds of pop culture, football,
mass media, and the NHS . a terrificread by an accomplished
author.
*—Kate Bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger*
Understated and urgent, Jacques comes across as a woman carrying an
ambiguity she doesn't seem to want or feel able fully to shed...She
confounds the distinction, not just between male and female, but
also between the emotional atmospheres which the various trans
identities are meant - 'instructed' may be the right word - to
personify.
*London Review of Books*
A thoughtful and honest account of the realities of life as a trans
woman ... accessible and relatable, regardless of your gender
identity
*Independent*
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