The natural mother of the child :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Production / Publication Information
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
Summary
"Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies the outsiderness the speaker, who is almost always addressing a cis "you," sometimes his mother, sometimes strangers, mostly his cis female partner. Instead of using a straight narrative, the book circles around this concept of motherhood and of my relationship to it. The book is also an archive of my queerness, of childhood photos of me smiling impossibly wide, of my original birth certificate and the legal documents surrounding Samson's adoption. It's a direct engagement with the documentation we think constitutes a record of one's life. The book ends on an exploration of how much we can really know when we enter into parenting a person, and of my ambivalence about the "before" and "after" that is so prevalent in trans stories and that feels so outside my experience as a nonbinary transmasculine person"--
Call Number
306.874 BEL
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781640094383
The natural mother of the child :
Author
Format:
Audio disc
Physical Description
4 audio discs (approximately 263 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition
Unabridged.
Production / Publication Information
Holland, OH : Dreamscape Media, LLC, [2021]
Summary
This memoir-in-essays explores the experience of gestational parenthood, conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding, for a nonbinary, transmasculine parent.
Call Number
AUDIOCD 306.874 MALCOLM BEC
Publication Date
2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781666507065
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