PART ONE: COMMUTER STUDENT (seven chapters) We meet Derek, a gender nonconforming male, as he registers to take Intro to Women's Studies and some of the other students in the hallway. Within a few pages we learn that Derek commutes from a half
Nearly all of the book takes place in either Los Alamos or Albuquerque, in the state of New Mexico. Los Alamos is where Derek, the main character, attends school during the first third of the book, and where he comes back to work between attempts
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity
Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, whi