Torrey Peters
R410.00
A masterclass in trans fiction writing; it’s one thing to have a novel deconstruct traditional readings of sex and gender. It’s another to expose the specific kind of misogyny faced by trans women daily – an ambivalent violence that structures the world we live in. Scandalous, polemic and funny for all the right reasons. – Rukshana
Torrey Peters once again reminds us that the popular archetype of the angelic trans victim is incomplete at best, and dehumanising at worst. Trans people, she tells us in four wonderfully distinct portraits, are people: complex and contradictory, angry yet romantic, petty but full of whimsy, just as endearingly and inescapably human as anyone else. – Coda
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Stag Dance
Deep in the forest, a group of restless lumberjacks working an illegal logging outfit plan a winter dance that some will volunteer to attend as women; the broadest, strongest axeman finds himself caught in a rivalry with a pretty, young jack that culminates in jealousy, betrayal and an astonishing spectacle of transition.
Meanwhile, in other times and places, the gender apocalypse is brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend; an illicit boarding-school romance surfaces intrigue and cruelty; and a Las Vegas party weekend turns dark when a young crossdresser must choose between a thrilling mystery man or a veteran trans woman offering unglamorous sisterhood.
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