"Hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation" in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and hilarious coming-of-age tale.
Bond recalls in vivid detail how it looked and felt to first discover Mom's lipstick (Iced Watermelon by Revlon), and how dreary it could be for a trans/queer kid to join the Cub Scouts. Always haunted by the knowledge of being "different," Bond began to create intimate friendships with girls, and to feel increasingly at risk with boys.
But when the bully next door wanted to meet secretly, Bond couldn't resist. Their trysts went on for years, making Bond acutely aware of how sexual power and vulnerability can be experienced at the same time. With inimitable style, Bond raises issues about LBGTQ adolescence, parenting trans/queer children, and bullying, while being utterly entertaining."
According to Wikipedia, although Bond is transgender and she underwent feminizing hormone therapy to appear more feminine, she does not intend to undergo gender reassignment surgery and prefers to use the personal pronoun 'they.'"
This is how Bond explains it for Irish Times: “Since I’m transgender, people tend to get confused regarding my pronouns, etc. So I prefer ‘they’ or ‘them’, or ‘V’ or even ‘she’ – anything but ‘he’ or ‘his’, really. Also, instead of Mr or Miss, I have taken on the honorific ‘Mx’, pronounced ‘mix’. I thought I’d let you know right up front, because people ask so often. Also, I prefer to be addressed as ‘V’ or Vivian, but I have no problem with Justin. So there’s my spiel.”
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