Julia Serano - Outspoken

2016, English, Julia Serano, USA,

Full title: "Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism" by Julia Serano.

In her third book, Julia Serano chronicles her own personal evolution and the many shifts in transgender activism that have occurred since the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a personal history of where transgender activism has recently been and a passionate and insightful analysis of where it should head in the future.

This collection compiles forty-eight of her previously unpublished and difficult-to-find trans-themed writings, including her early slam poems and spoken word, essays, and manifestos written contemporaneously with her acclaimed books Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity and Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, plus her recent work addressing differences within transgender communities and activism.

According to Wikipedia, Julia Michelle Serano was born in 1967. She is an American writer, musician, spoken-word performer, trans–bi activist, and biologist, known for her transfeminist books Whipping Girl (2007), Excluded (2013), and Outspoken (2016). Her writing is frequently featured in LGBT and popular culture magazines. Assigned male at birth, she first consciously recognized in herself a desire to be female during the late 1970s, when she was 11 years old. A few years later, she began crossdressing.

At first, she crossdressed secretively, but she eventually started identifying herself openly as a "male crossdresser." Serano attended her first support group for crossdressers in 1994 while she lived in Kansas. In 1998, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where she met her wife, and around then, she began identifying as not only a crossdresser but also transgender and bigender. In 2001, she began medically transitioning and identifying as a trans woman.

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