I Don't Want To Be Understood

I Don't Want To Be Understood
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Publisher : Alice James Books
Total Pages : 119
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ISBN-10 : 9781949944358
ISBN-13 : 1949944352
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Book Synopsis I Don't Want To Be Understood by : Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Download or read book I Don't Want To Be Understood written by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transsexual woman pieces together fragmented details of a repressive religious childhood and an unsupportive family, drawing from autobiographical experiences of the poet’s life. I Don’t Want To Be Understood is a work of resistance against the conventional trans narrative, and a resistance against the idea that trans people should have to make themselves clear and understandable to others in other to deserve human rights. This is a compelling, urgent collection about the body and survival that asks how we learn to love in a culture where normal is defined by exclusion and discrimination. These poems stretch from childhood to the present day—resisting typical narratives of self-discovery, resilience, and personal growth—and instead asks what it means to be granted or denied personhood by the world around you. It is a personal archive of a trans life laid out in all its messiness and unknowability, and is a book for anyone who has questioned why we place so many limitations on who gets to be considered a human being. These poems do not celebrate survival, but rather ask why transsexuals and other gender non-conforming people must fight so hard to survive in the first place.


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