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Book

A body made home : they Black trans love

Call Number

  • 306.768 G7968 (CEN, OSH, POW)

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Edition

First Feminist Press edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : The Feminist Press, 2026.

Physical Description

221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"In a country built on the daily oppression and incarceration of Black people and on the rejection of queer and trans rights, how does a Black trans man become himself or find homeThis question spurred Kai Marshall Green's investigation into bodies-- and the love between them-- discounted by the mainstream as deviant, deficient, and defective. In his powerful debut memoir, Green recounts his lifelong transition from 'Baby Girl' to 'Black Boi' and 'Black Trans Man,' his current and future self. Laced through his accounts of family, society, and academia are experiments in letter writing and biomythography, continuing in the literary tradition of Audre Lorde. Through A Body Made Home, Green explores the long, stuttering arc of transition as a Black queer person in America, recasting visions of home, narratives of metamorphosis, and dreams of freedom."--Back cover.

Contents

  • Home
  • Losing It
  • Special
  • Hands
  • A break
  • On and in transition
  • Black healing matters
  • My stuff
  • This Black body just won't be still, or hips lie
  • On the Black radical tradition of letter writing
  • Dear Marissa
  • Dear Mama
  • A letter to my nieces and their moms
  • A letter to they younger self
  • Epilogue. When, where, & how they exit.

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