{"product_id":"pretty","title":"Pretty","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award - By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective--the tropes, the presumptions--\u003ci\u003ePretty \u003c\/i\u003eis as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body,\" Brookins writes. \"Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female, ' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean--to be a girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInformed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, \u003ci\u003ePretty \u003c\/i\u003eis concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency--whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as \"other.\"","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67618504016115,"sku":"9780593684887","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/7432\/5312\/files\/imageloader_4bf49391-52f8-434c-a8f9-df5529389c69.jpg?v=1790877699","url":"https:\/\/letterpressplay.mom\/products\/pretty","provider":"Letterpress PLAY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}