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New PDF release: Tomboy Survival Guide

By Ivan Coyote

ISBN-10: 1543661793

ISBN-13: 9781543661798

ISBN-10: 1551526565

ISBN-13: 9781551526560

Stonewall booklet Award Honor booklet winner

Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the writer of ten past books, together with Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in each Crowd, a set for LGBT adolescence. Tomboy Survival Guide is a humorous and relocating memoir instructed in tales, within which Ivan recounts the pleasures and problems of growing to be up a tomboy in Canada’s Yukon, and the way they discovered to include their tomboy earlier whereas carving out an area for these people who don’t healthy smartly into packing containers or identities or labels.

Ivan writes movingly approximately many firsts: the 1st time they have been unsuitable for a boy; the 1st time they purposely discarded their bikini best so that they may well sign up for the lads on the neighborhood swimming pool; and the 1st time they have been chastised for utilizing the women’s washroom. Ivan additionally explores their years as a tender butch, facing new infatuations and previous luggage, and lifestyles as a gender-box-defying grownup, within which they give suggestion to children whereas looking tips from others. (And for tomboys in education, there are even instructions on construction your own unicorn trap.)

Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan’s adventures and mishaps as a diffident but free-spirited tomboy, and maps their trip via treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don’t rather stick, to a spot of self-acceptance and an genuine and private power. those heartfelt, humorous, and relocating tales are in regards to the tradition of difference—a “guide” to being precise to one’s self.


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