Dancing in Hellfire: Life as Transgender to Mississippi Drug-Addicted Fundamentalists

by Aria DiMezzo

Mother addicted to meth. Pain killers everywhere. Nerve meds everywhere. Domestic violence. Torture. An unsolved disappearance of a parent. The other parent guilty of murder. Fundamentalist Christians everywhere, believing Y2K is going to unleash the Antichrist. And through it all... I'm transgender.This is my story. This is the story of my life--of being trans going all the way back to when I was three years old, but being in the worst possible environment for it: rural Mississippi, surrounded by fundamentalist Christians who also happened to be drug addicts. After the divorce, my mother went from pain killers to meth, and was murdered when I was twelve, while my father was arrested for embezzlement, and I was shuffled off to my strict, no-nonsense, extremely fundamentalist grandmother who screened everything I could watch, everything I could listen to, and everything I could be exposed to. This is a story of what it's like to be trans and brought up by fundamentalist Christians who lived in poverty in rural Mississippi. It is also a story of what it's like to be surrounded by drug addicts and abusive alcoholics, to have a father kill a woman when one is four years old, and to listen to a mother choke out "I can't breathe..." at two in the morning. This is a story about survival, about carrying the light within you and keeping it alive until it can shine. And it's a true story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1549632930
• ISBN13: 9781549632938
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"