spoken on stages around the world. As a writer and creative director, they use their queer, Latine, and neurodivergent perspective to center the stories of stigmatized bodies and identities. She shares a bed with her two perrhijos and partner.
Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You're Not Supposed to Be is her first book.
At Electric Lit Egozi tagged eight books that are "not only achingly well-written, but infused with the particular perspective of those who know what it is to be on the outside—even if they pretend not to be." One title on their list:
Nevada by Imogen BinnieRead about the other entries on the list at Electric Lit.
Easily one of my favorites, this book is often considered the first work of the new “trans lit”. Written by a trans woman for other trans women, the novel follows Maria, a Brooklyn internet blogging trans woman who writes tips for other trans women online. Although she’s positioned herself as an “educator” of sorts for baby trans women, she’s a mess. Her external and internal lives come undone as she gets dumped, gets fired, and borrows-but-actually-steals her best friend’s car and begins a roadtrip across the country, meeting a young sales assistant at a Walmart in Nevada who she can tell is maybe, probably, trans. She takes James under her wing and you’ll have to read the rest because it’s an absolute cult classic for a reason, primarily because it’s not written for anyone else but Binnie’s own community.
--Marshal Zeringue
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