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Being a girl was something that never really happened for me.Rae SpoonIvan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers they are also both admitted gender failures. In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all.Based on their acclaimed 2012 live show that toured across the United States and in Europe, Gender Failure is a poignant collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images documenting Ivan and Raes personal journeys from gender failure to gender enlightenment. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, its a book that will touch LGBTQ readers and others, revealing, with candor and insight, that gender comes in more than two sizes.



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Ivan E. Coyote

Ivan E. Coyote is a trans writer, performer, and author of eight books published by Arsenal Pulp Press, including Gender Failure (co-written by Rae Spoon) , the young-adult collection One in Every Crowd, and the novel Bow Grip, winner of the ReLit Award. Ivan is also the co-editor (with Zena Sharman) of the anthology Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. Born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, Ivan is now a resident of Vancouver.



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