{"product_id":"im-afraid-of-men-9780735235939","title":"I'm Afraid of Men","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book by: \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail, \u003c\/i\u003eIndigo, \u003ci\u003eOut Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e Audible, CBC, Apple, \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire, Kirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003e Brooklyn Public Library, Writers' Trust of Canada, \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle, Bitch, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e BookRiot.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design - Prose Non-Fiction \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Cultural rocket fuel.\" --\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, \u003ci\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/i\u003e will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one--one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind.\" --Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun and Her Flowers \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMilk and Honey\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl--and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative damage caused by misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, releasing trauma from a body that has always refused to assimilate. \u003ci\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey from camouflage to a riot of colour and a blueprint for how we might cherish all that makes us different and conquer all that makes us afraid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVIVEK SHRAYA is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her bestselling book \u003ci\u003eI'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/i\u003e was heralded by \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e as \"cultural rocket fuel,\" and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, \u003ci\u003ePart-Time Woman, \u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. The founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books, Shraya is a six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. She's currently adapting her debut play, \u003ci\u003eHow to Fail As a Popstar, \u003c\/i\u003e into a television pilot script with the support of CBC.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626783248658,"sku":"9780735235939","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2369dfa9-7244-4c31-b2d8-44c977d891f9.jpg?v=1732669343","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/im-afraid-of-men-9780735235939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}