This body i wore: a memoir - Diana Goetsch

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• A captivating memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, as the trans community emerges alongside her.
• A universal and profound meditation on the price of authenticity.--Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of She's Not There and Good Boy Long before Laverne Cox appeared on the cover of Time , far removed from drag and ballroom culture, there were countless trans women living and dying as men, most of whom didn't even know they were trans.
• Diana Goetsch's This Body I Wore chronicles one woman's long journey to coming out, a path that runs parallel to the emergence of the trans community over the past several decades.
• How can you spend your life face-to-face with an essential truth about yourself and still not see it?
• This is a question often asked of trans people, and a question that Goetsch, an award-winning poet and essayist, addresses with the power and complexity of lived reality.
• She brings us into her childhood, her time as a dynamic and beloved teacher at Stuyvesant High School, and her plunge into the crossdressing subculture of New York in the 1980s and '90s.
• Under cover of night, crossdressers risked their jobs and their safety to give expression to urges they could neither control nor understand.
• Many of them would become late transitioners, the Cinderellas of the trans community largely ignored by history.
• Goetsch has not written a transition memoir, but rather a full account of a trans life, one both unusually public and closeted.
• All too often trans lives are reduced to before-and-after photos, but what if that before photo lasted fifty years?