Trans Transgender Life Stories from South Africa

, by Morgan, Ruth; Marais, Charl; Wellbeloved, Joy Rosemary

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ISBN: 9781920196226 | 1920196226
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/2010

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Find In This, The First Book Of Its Kind In Africa, more than twenty original voices offering illuminating life stories that allow a glimpse of the unparalleled joys and heartaches of thinking and being different - and all with a great deal to say about the experience of being transgender in South Africa today.

Ruth Morgan is an anthropologist and the director of the Gay and Lesbian Archives in South Africa. Charl Marais is a freelance journalist and a committee member of Gender Dynamix. Joy Rosemary Wellbeloved was an editor for Fanfare and the coauthor of The Transgender Phenomenon, which won the Elaine Barry Literary award for 1989–1990.

Acknowledgements	p. iv
Foreword	p. 3
Glossary	p. 5
Introduction	p. 9
Life stories and fiction
Robert Hamblin: My name is	p. 13
Leo's story: ôA boy in my dreams and imaginationö	p. 19
Charl's story: ôBack in the 70s there was no supportö	p. 27
Prier's story: ôFor a short time I seemed to be a woman, my face felt softö	p. 35
Lyndsay's story: ôGender for me has always been a complex questionö	p. 39
Kgaogelo's story: ôGogos would refer to me as ngwaninyanaö	p. 49
Marlene's story: ôI felt lonely trying to be a manö	p. 57
Vanya's story: ôI'm a full womanö	p. 63
Vanya's mother's story: ôLet your child beö	p. 71
Petra D's story: ôI'm an in-between personö	p. 75
Laura's story: ôI was sewing the world togetherö	p. 81
Alex's story: ôIt's not a penis that makes a manö	p. 87
Charlie's story: ôIt is all about what's in your heartö	p. 97
Chantelle's story: ôLiving close to the edgeö	p. 103
Lester's story: ôLiving it outö	p. 111
Tebogo's story: ôMy ancestor was living through meö	p. 119
Joy's story: ôNow I make my own mapsö	p. 129
Robert's story: ôOh! This is what it feels like to be normalö	p. 137
Amanda Watson: Real life	p. 141
Angelique's story: ôSent back to the DRCö	p. 145
Candice's story: ôSmooth-sailingö	p. 151
Liesl Theron: The SOFFA perspective	p. 155
ôThis testosterone thing is opening doorsö	p. 163
Simone's story: ôThree of us took on the entire systemö	p. 179
Zama's story: ôTo be the best man I can beö	p. 185
Zama's brother's story: ôI kept him close, I befriended himö	p. 191
Zana's story: ôYes Mama, I want to be a womanö	p. 195
Nazmah's story: ôYou could see the girl shining outö	p. 199
Terrick's story: ôYour body isn't who you are, it's what you are inö	p. 205
Keisha's story: ôWhen you please everybody else you destroy yourselfö	p. 211
Making sense of the silences: A group discussion	p. 217
Epilogue	p. 240
Index	p. 241
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