I'm Afraid of Men

I'm Afraid of Men

<b>Named a Best Book by: <i>The Globe and Mail, </i>Indigo, <i>Out Magazine,</i> Audible, CBC, Apple, <i>Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews,</i> Brooklyn Public Library, Writers’ Trust of Canada, <i>Autostraddle, Bitch, </i>and<i> BookRiot.</i><br><br><b>Finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction<br></b>Nominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award<br>Winner of the 2018  Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Non-Fiction<br><br>"Cultural rocket fuel." --<i>Vanity Fair</i><br><br>"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, <i>I'm Afraid of Men</i> will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind." --Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of <i>The Sun and Her Flowers </i>and <i>Milk and Honey</i><br><br>A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl--and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century.</b><br><br>Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak.<br><br>Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate. <i>I'm Afraid of Men</i> is a journey from camouflage to a riot of colour and a blueprint for how we might cherish all that makes us different and conquer all that makes us afraid.