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02866aam a2200361 i 4500 001 31BD6A081A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230704010055 008 230117s2023 nyua 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023001802 020 $a 0593445880 020 $a 9780593445884 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Rocero, Geena, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Horse Barbie : $b a memoir / $c Geena Rocero. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b The Dial Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xvii, 300 pages : $b illustrations (chiefly color) ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "As a young femme growing up in Manila in the 1990s, Geena Rocero endured shouts of bakla, bakla!, a Filipino taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the little universe of her eskinita. Eventually she found her place in trans pageants, eventsas widely attended and culturally significant as a national sport, going to high school by day and competing by night. When her competitors denigrated her with the nickname "horse barbie," due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet, stepping onto stage with an undeniable charisma-part equine and all fashion. By seventeen, she was the Philippines' most prominent and highest-earning trans pageant queen. When she moved to the United States, Geena wasable to change her name and gender marker on her documents, which wasn't-and still isn't-possible for trans people in the Philippines. But legal recognition didn't come with any guarantee of safety. In order to survive, Geena went stealth and hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom and truth at the expense of another. For a while, it worked. Within a few years she'd become an in-demand model, appearing in music videos, billboards, and magazine campaigns, and was hailed as the epitome of feminine beauty. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self, yet had to remain eternally vigilant in order to protect her dream career. The tenuous, high-stakes double life finally led Geena to a breaking pointwhen she had to decide how to reclaim the power of Horse Barbie once and for all: radiant, head held high, and unabashedly herself"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Rocero, Geena, $d 1983- 650 0 $a Beauty contestants $v Biography. 650 0 $a Transgender women $v Biography. 650 0 $a Beauty contests $z Philippines. 650 0 $a Beauty contests. 941 $a 7 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20231003011411.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20230908010315.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230902011115.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20230802012733.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230706010545.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230704012412.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230704012119.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=31BD6A081A3011EEAF9CB4AD47ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search