{"product_id":"pretty","title":"Pretty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePretty\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Memoir\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eby KB Brookins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body,” Brookins writes. “Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I’m perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can’t change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says ‘female,’ and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean—to be a girl-turned-man when you’re something else entirely?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInformed by KB Brookins’s personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, \u003cem\u003ePretty\u003c\/em\u003e is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency—whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as “other.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9780593684887, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trans Tool Shed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51884201214242,"sku":"9780593684887","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0034\/2445\/2657\/files\/9780593684887.jpg?v=1782602265","url":"https:\/\/transtoolshed.com\/products\/pretty","provider":"Trans Tool Shed","version":"1.0","type":"link"}