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02685aam a2200373 i 4500 001 CCA08F1427B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240611010142 008 240111s2024 nyua b 000 0aeng 010 $a 2023042976 020 $a 0593537149 020 $a 9780593537145 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d GCmBT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-tx 050 00 $a HQ76.27.A37 $b K35 2024 082 00 $a 305.38/896073 $2 23/eng/20240125 100 0 $a KB $q (Brookins), $e author. 245 10 $a Pretty : $b a memoir / $c KB Brookins. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2024. 300 $a xv, 214 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-214). 520 $a "By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective-the tropes, the presumptions-Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. "I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body," Brookins writes. "Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female,' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean - to be a girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?" Informed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency-whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as "other""-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 00 $a KB $q (Brookins) 650 0 $a African American transgender people $x Texas. 650 0 $a African American men $z Texas $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Masculinity $z Texas. 776 08 $i Online version: $a KB (Brookins) $t Pretty $b First edition. $d New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024 $z 9780593537152 $w (DLC) 2023042977 941 $a 2 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710065534.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240702033018.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CCA08F1427B811EF9FBFAF4235ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search