The cult classic that inspired the new wave of transgender fiction - widely available in Australia for the first time.
Imogen Binnie wrote a monthly column for Maximumrocknroll magazine for about nine years, as well as the zines The Fact That It's Funny Doesn't Make It A Joke and Stereotype Threat. Her novel Nevada won a 2013 MOTHA award. She has written for TV shows Doubt, Council of Dads, and Cruel Summer. She lives near Keene, New Hampshire with her family.
This is the book that launched the trans writing scene in Brooklyn
that changed my own life. The scene had a basic premise: trans
women writing for other trans women. It seems simple, but it had
revolutionary effects, similar to Toni Morrison's famous
declaration that she 'writes for Black women.' [Nevada] remains an
original
*Torrey Peters*
I fully tip my hat to former fellow Maximum Rock N Roll columnist
and my sibling in the latter-day queer punk literary revolution; I
say without hesitation that we do not deserve Imogen Binnie AT
ALL...it is truly a joy to watch a master of suspense paint the
page with a both-feet-on-the-gas-pedal inner monologue, that is at
once, spontaneous, acidic, razor sharp observant, fully embodied
and (most importantly) vulnerable...TENS ACROSS THE GODDAMN
BOARD.'
*Brontez Purnell*
I've told people that Nevada is the On the Road of trans
literature, but that's glib and unfair to Imogen Binnie, who is a
lot smarter than Jack Kerouac. Nevada crept in under cover of night
in 2013 and assumed its position as a classic while everyone's
attention was elsewhere...this is one for the ages.
*Lucy Sante*
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