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This body I wore a memoir

How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? Goetsch brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 198...

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Main Author: Goetsch, Diana (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Goetsch, Diana.
Transgender women > United States > Biography.
Poets, American > Biography.
Gender transition > United States.
Gender identity.
Autobiographies.
Summary: How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it? Goetsch brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and '90s. Under cover of night, crossdressers risked their jobs and their safety to give expression to urges they could neither control nor understand. Here Goetsch chronicles her long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. -- adapted from jacket
Physical Description: 316 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780374115098
0374115095
Author Notes: Diana Goetsch is an American poet and essayist. Her poems have appeared widely, in The New Yorker , Poetry , The Gettysburg Review , Ploughshares , The Best American Poetry , and the Pushcart Prize anthology, and in the collections Nameless Boy and In America , among others. She also wrote the "Life in Transition" blog at The American Scholar . Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the New School, where she served as the Grace Paley Teaching Fellow. For twenty-one years Goetsch was a New York City public school teacher, at Stuyvesant High School and at Passages Academy in the Bronx, where she ran a creative writing program for incarcerated teens.

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