Kit Heyam: Before We Were Trans

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This Pride season, join Dr Kit Heyam as they discuss their new book, Before We Were Trans

Carpenter Room Sheffield Central Library

Pride 2023

Join us at Sheffield Libraries for Pride season 2023!

Before We Were Trans is a new and different story of gender, that seeks not to be comprehensive or definitive, but – by blending culture, feminism and politics – to widen the scope of what we think of as trans history by telling the stories of people across the globe whose experience of gender has been transgressive, or not characterised by stability or binary categories.Transporting us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to North America, the stories this book tells leave questions and resist conclusions. They are fraught with ambiguity, and defy modern Western terminology and categories – not least the category of ‘trans’ itself. But telling them provides a history that reflects the richness of modern trans reality more closely than any previously written.Before We Were Trans is a history and celebration of gender in all its fluidity, ambiguity and complexity.C﻿opies of the book will be available to buy and have signed after the event, thanks to our bookselling partner <a href="https://www.junobooks.co.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Juno Books</a>.

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