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This body I wore : a memoir

Goetsch, Diana (author.).

Summary: Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn't even know they were trans. This chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. "How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it?" This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goetsch, an award-winning poet and essayist, addresses with the power and complexity of lived reality. She brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city's crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and '90s. Under cover of night, crossdressers risked their jobs and their safety to give expression to the urges they could neither control nor understand. Many would become late transitioners, the Cinderellas of the trans community largely ignored by history.

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  • ISBN: 0374115095
  • ISBN: 9780374115098
  • Physical Description: 316 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Subject: Goetsch, Diana
Transgender women United States Biography
Poets United States Biography
Gender transition United States

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  • 8 of 8 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Paul Smith Library of Southern York County Adults Goetsch Biography (Text) 34318001206081 Adult Area Available -
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