Name: June Book Club - This Body I Wore: A Memoir by Diana Goetsch (PICNIC LOCATION)
Start: 2024-06-01T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-01T15:00:00-04:00

Hi there! For June, we'll be reading ***This Body I Wore: A Memoir*** by Diana Goetsch (336 pgs). We are returning to picnic meetings in the park.
Because there is always a chance of rain, our meeting spot within McCarren Park will be closer to our contingency location. Details for those who have RSVP'd below!

I will bring picnic blankets and light snacks, but feel free to bring your own as we may be a larger group!

About ***This Body I Wore: A Memoir*** *by Diana Goetsch* (336 pages) Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time, far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn't even know they were trans. 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 truth 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 Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the crossdressing subculture of New York 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 of them would become late transitioners, the Cinderellas of the trans community largely ignored by history. "How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential truth 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 Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the crossdressing subculture of New York 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 of them would become late transitioners, the Cinderellas of the trans community largely ignored by history.

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June Book Club - This Body I Wore: A Memoir by Diana Goetsch (PICNIC LOCATION)

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