Description
Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time far removed from drag and ballroom culture there were countless trans women living and dying as men most of whom didnt even know they were trans Diana Goetschs This Body I Wore chronicles one womans long journey to coming out a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades
How can you spend your life facetoface with an essential truth about yourself and still not see it This is a question often asked of trans people and a question that Goetsch an awardwinning poet and essayist addresses with the power and complexity of lived reality She brings us into her childhood her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at Stuyvesant High School and her plunge into the crossdressing subculture of New York 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 Many of them would become late transitioners the Cinderellas of the trans community largely ignored by history
Goetsch has not written a transition memoir but rather a full account of a trans life one both unusually public and closeted All too often trans lives are reduced to beforeandafter photos but what if that before photo lasted fifty years
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