Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad

by Hil Malatino

Book Overview

How the "bad feelings" of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing

Some days--or weeks, or months, or even years--being trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517912091
• ISBN13: 9781517912093
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"