Resilience

surviving in the face of everything

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Amy Heart, Larissa Glasser, Sugi Pyrrophyta: Resilience (2017)

185 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 2017

ISBN:
978-0-9996730-0-3
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OCLC Number:
1020708327

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5 stars (1 review)

"Take a journey through the worlds of over thirty (C)AMAB trans writers in what is currently the largest collection of poetry and prose made for and by us."--Back cover.

"Resilience stars a wide spectrum of contemporary (C)AMAB trans writers, each exploring different worlds across race, class, ability, and gender identity. We're proud to feature new work from over thirty authors, including forty-one short stories, essays, and poems from so many of our friends (old and new)."--Publisher's website.

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Review of 'Resilience' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Note: (C)AMAB = (coercively) assigned male at birth

"Resilience" was a book that had me just think "Yes, exactly that" many times. This collections of writings from (C)AMAB trans writers manages to capture and resonate with the emotional experience of this live so well. I'm not sure if a cis person reading it would have a comparable experience, but it certainly will provide some valuable insight.

It includes perspectives from a variety of backgrounds, especially works from writers who face multiple forms of discrimination by not only being trans but also experiencing racism and the consequences of colonialism for example. I think those compounding issues are often overlooked even within trans communities.

Being an anthology, probably not every work in it will be to everyones taste. I personally didn't enjoy most of the poetry very much but I have my difficulty with poetry in general. I got much more out …

Subjects

  • Resilience (Personality trait)
  • Literary collections
  • Gender identity disorders
  • Gender-nonconforming people
  • Gender nonconformity
  • Transgender people's writings, American
  • Male-to-female transsexuals
  • Sexual minorities
  • Transgender people
  • Identity
  • Transsexualism
  • Gender identity
  • Feminism
  • Women