FAIREST: A MEMOIR
A finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for transgender nonfiction, Fairest was also named one of the best books of the year by publications such as O: The Oprah Magazine, Library Journal, and Electric Literature, and was featured in the LitHub and Teen Vogue Book Clubs.
BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
“There Are No Angels”
in Listening in the Dark,
edited by Amber Tamblyn
“My roommate from Craigslist said, “Welcome home!”the first night I arrived in San Francisco from Boston, and then kissed me square on the mouth…”
“Foreword”
to Seeing Gender
by Iris Gottlieb
“Like an imaginary friend or the boogeyman, gender is often something we forget we made up, even though it exerts a great deal of influence over our lives…”
“Clothes Unmake the Man”
in Disruptive Perspectives, Museum of Contemporary Photography Catalogue
“‘Went To Top Shop To Buy Some Girl Clothes, I Mean Clothes’…”
“We’ve Always Been Nasty”
in Nasty Women, edited by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding
“I wanted to be sad, but I was too angry. Over the weeks after Donald Trump’s election, that anger steadily shifted toward alienation as I watched cisgender women across America find comfort in each other as they planned the Women’s March in Washington…”
“A Family of Freaks”
in Chosen Family: Less Alone Together, fotomuseum winterthur exhibit catalogue
“It can never be mentioned enough that until recently, freaks have not been allowed to represent ourselves – especially in photography, whose history is deeply implicated in the mastery of the powerful over the weak.”
“Afterword”
Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities
by sj miller et al.
“Overt femininity is coded in our culture as frivolous and unintellectual, yet for trans femmes, any sign of departure from the feminine ideal risks the worst effects of transphobia…”
“Invisible Light Waves”
in Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay
“Between transitions while I lived with five other recent nomads in Harlem, I met Paul in our kitchen one night…”
“Anonymous Story”
in the short story anthology, Anonymous Sex
27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached.
“Basic Math”
in Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger,
edited by Lilly Dancyger
“I must have made a mistake, I thought in the face of my classmate Nathaniel’s ire. It was 2006, and I was a student in Cornell’s fiction MFA program, four years post–gender transition and undisclosed to colleagues in my new environment…”
“Datalounge - Gay Celebrity Gossip, Gay Politics, Gay News and Pointless Bitchery Since 1995”
in Nepantla: Queer Poets of Color