Stonewall publication Award Honor ebook winner

Ivan Coyote is a celebrated storyteller and the writer of ten earlier books, together with Gender Failure (with Rae Spoon) and One in each Crowd, a set for LGBT adolescence. Tomboy Survival Guide is a humorous and relocating memoir advised in tales, within which Ivan recounts the pleasures and problems of growing to be up a tomboy in Canada’s Yukon, and the way they realized to embody their tomboy prior whereas carving out an area for these folks who don’t healthy well into containers or identities or labels.

Ivan writes movingly approximately many firsts: the 1st time they have been improper for a boy; the 1st time they purposely discarded their bikini most sensible so that they may well sign up for the lads on the neighborhood swimming pool; and the 1st time they have been chastised for utilizing the women’s washroom. Ivan additionally explores their years as a tender butch, facing new infatuations and outdated luggage, and lifestyles as a gender-box-defying grownup, during which they provide suggestion to adolescents whereas looking counsel from others. (And for tomboys in education, there are even instructions on construction your own unicorn trap.)

Tomboy Survival Guide warmly recounts Ivan’s adventures and mishaps as a diffident but free-spirited tomboy, and maps their trip via treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don’t fairly stick, to a spot of self-acceptance and an genuine and private energy. those heartfelt, humorous, and relocating tales are in regards to the tradition of difference—a “guide” to being precise to one’s self.