Love And Money Sex And Death A Memoir

Binding: Hardcover
Description: After a successful career a twenty - year marriage and two kids Mc Kenzie Wark has an acute midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form recasts her relation to the world. Transition changes what and how she remembers. She makes fresh sense of her past and of history by writing to key figures in her life about the big themes that haunt us all love and money sex and death. In letters to her childhood self her mother sister and past lovers she writes a backstory that enables her to live in the present. The letters expand to address trans sisters lost and found as well as Cybele ancient goddess of trans women. She engages with the political the aesthetic and the numinous dimensions of trans life and how they refract her sense of who she is who she has been who she can still become. She confronts difficult memories that connect her mother's early death to her compulsion to write her communist convictions her coming to New York the bittersweet reality of her late transition and the joy to be found in Brooklyn's trans and raver communities.
Title: Love And Money Sex And Death A Memoir
Author(s): Wark Mckenzie
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781804292617
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 9/26/2023
Category: Sociology: Family & Relationships