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005			20240701152542.0
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019			_a1396253020 _a1432334222
020			_a9780593537145 _qhardcover
020			_a0593537149 _qhardcover
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092			_aBROOKINS K _bK23
049			_aNFGA
100	0		_aKB _q(Brookins), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPretty : _ba memoir / _cKB Brookins.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2024.
264		4	_c©2024
300			_axv, 214 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective-the tropes, the presumptions-Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. "I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body," Brookins writes. "Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female,' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean - to be a girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?" Informed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency-whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as "other""-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	0	0	_aKB _q(Brookins)
650		0	_aAfrican American transgender people _zTexas.
650		0	_aAfrican American men _zTexas _xPsychology.
650		0	_aMasculinity _zTexas.
650		0	_aTransgender men _zTexas.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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