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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 humor 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 youâwhether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt with unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the "official stories" about how gender and sexuality work. This is thought-provoking, funny and required reading for anyone and everyone who has ever had to deal with being in the world.
Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2009
Author: S. Bear Bergman