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Horse Barbie : A Memoir of Reclamation

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Product Code: 9780593445907
ISBN13: 9780593445907
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? moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy?(Vogue) from one of Out100? Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers ?roundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can look like.?Glamour (Women of the Year) WINNER OF THEM? AWARD FOR LITERATURE ?A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Book Riot, Elle, Esquire As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, ?akla, bakla!,?a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines?informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a ?orse Barbie?due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet. By seventeen, she was the Philippines?highest-earning trans pageant queen. A year later, Geena moved to the United States where she could change her name and gender marker on her documents. But legal recognition didn? mean safety. In order to survive, Geena went stealth and hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom at the expense of another. For a while, it worked. She became an in-demand model. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self yet had to remain vigilant in order to protect her dream career. The high-stakes double life finally forced Geena to decide herself if she wanted to reclaim the power of Horse Barbie once and for all: radiant, head held high, and unabashedly herself. A dazzling testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history and activism, Horse Barbie is a celebratory and universal story of survival, love, and pure joy.


Author: Geena Rocero
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Publication Date: Jun 04, 2024
Number of Pages: 345 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0593445902
ISBN-13: 9780593445907

Horse Barbie : A Memoir of Reclamation

$18.00
$16.81
Sale 7%
 
? moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy?(Vogue) from one of Out100? Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers ?roundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can look like.?Glamour (Women of the Year) WINNER OF THEM? AWARD FOR LITERATURE ?A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Book Riot, Elle, Esquire As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, ?akla, bakla!,?a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines?informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a ?orse Barbie?due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet. By seventeen, she was the Philippines?highest-earning trans pageant queen. A year later, Geena moved to the United States where she could change her name and gender marker on her documents. But legal recognition didn? mean safety. In order to survive, Geena went stealth and hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom at the expense of another. For a while, it worked. She became an in-demand model. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self yet had to remain vigilant in order to protect her dream career. The high-stakes double life finally forced Geena to decide herself if she wanted to reclaim the power of Horse Barbie once and for all: radiant, head held high, and unabashedly herself. A dazzling testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history and activism, Horse Barbie is a celebratory and universal story of survival, love, and pure joy.


Author: Geena Rocero
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Publication Date: Jun 04, 2024
Number of Pages: 345 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0593445902
ISBN-13: 9780593445907
 

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