![]() ![]() This jokey, brighter-side account will appeal to younger readers bogged down by the doom-and-gloom heaviness that can cloud the trans experience. ![]() ![]() Bird admits to suffering “cringe attacks” when reading his old diaries, and readers may similarly recoil from the occasionally overwrought prose: “Words flowed with a raw mellifluence unlike any I’d experienced before.” But Bird’s sense of humor and lightness of touch elsewhere-as when he likens the assigning of gender identity to the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter books-help to offset such pretentiousness. Bird opens with a glossary of transgender terminology before recounting his experiences growing up in Michigan, Texas, and New Mexico having a pregnancy scare in college binding his chest (“Looking in the mirror and seeing my flat chest felt so innately right that it would flood me with a rush of endorphins”) coming out to his mother picking his male name and undergoing reconstructive chest surgery. Originally conceived as a zine, the book retains such arty touches as hand-lettered pages, small black-and-white photos, and screenshots. An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how. ![]() YouTuber Bird draws on “over five dozen physical journals” and “hundreds more digital diaries” in this frothy memoir of his journey as a trans man. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir). ![]()
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