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The Nearest Exit May be Behind You
by S. Bear Bergman - £15.99 Arsenal Pulp Press (2010)
paperback
ISBN 13: 9781551522647 | ISBN 10: 1551522640
Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating.
With humour and grace, these essays deal with issues from women’s spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one; throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you’re visibly different from those around you ― whether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer.
As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the "official stories" about how gender and sexuality work.
(Price & availability last checked: May 2019)
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