Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, a poignant collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all.
Introduction / Ivan -- Introduction / Rae -- Girl failure / Ivan -- Girl failure / Rae -- Rosie / Ivan -- God failure / Rae -- Listing my sisters / Ivan -- Cowboy / Rae -- The rest of my chest / Ivan -- Prairie gender / Rae -- Gender identity interview for adults (FtM) / Ivan -- Man failure, part 1 / Rae -- Thirteen inches, uncut / Ivan -- Man failure, part 2 / Rae -- Top surgery / Ivan -- My body is a spaceship / Rae -- Messages to Lynn / Ivan -- How to be a transgender country singer / Rae -- Invested / Ivan -- YouTube gender / Rae -- Dear family / Ivan -- How to be a transgender indie rocker / Rae -- A cautionary tale / Ivan -- How to be gay when the gays won't have you / Rae -- Many moons / Ivan -- Drag failure / Rae -- Do I still call myself butch? / Ivan -- How I got to "they" / Rae -- The facilities / Ivan -- What do you think I am? / Rae -- Their, there / Ivan -- Touring success and touring failure / Rae -- Between the boat and the dock / Ivan -- Stories I tell myself and others (gender as narrative) / Rae -- Danger / Ivan -- Gender retirement / Rae.
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