02245cam a2200325 i 4500 722804390 TxAuBib 20230601120000.0 220202s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021059968 9780374115098 HRD 28.00 0374115095 HRD 28.00 9781250867155 pbk 20.00 1250867150 pbk 20.00 TxAuBib rda Goetsch, Diana, author. This body I wore [BOOK] : a memoir / Diana Goetsch. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 316 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Diana Goetsch’s This Body I Wore chronicles one woman’s long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades. “How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential fact about yourself and still not see it?” This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goetsch, an award-winning poet and essayist, addresses with the power and complexity of lived reality. She brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at New York City’s Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the city’s crossdressing subculture in the 1980s and ’90s. Under cover of night, crossdressers risked their jobs and their safety to give expression to urges they could neither control nor understand. Many would become late transitioners, the Cinderellas of the trans community largely ignored by history. Goetsch has written not a transition memoir, but rather a full account of a trans life, one both unusually public and closeted. All too often trans lives are reduced to before-and-after photos, but what if that before photo lasted fifty years? Provided by publisher. 20230601. Goetsch, Diana. Transgender women United States Biography. Poets United States Biography. Gender transition United States.