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The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

Arsenal Pulp Press
S. Bear Bergman
Regular price $19.00 USD
Pages
192 pp.
Language
English
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Published
2009-10-01
Year
2009
Binding
Paperback
ISBN
9781551522647
Dimensions
15.24 × 1.27 × 22.86 cm
Written by
S. Bear Bergman

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one. Throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you're visibly different from those around you—whether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Ze offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the "official stories" about how gender and sexuality work.

S. Bear Bergman's first book was Butch is a Noun (Suspect Thoughts Press). Ze is an activist, gender-jammer, and author of two books and three award-winning solo stage shows. Bergman recently relocated to Burlington, Ontario, from New England.

Title
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
Author
S. Bear Bergman
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Published
2009-10-01
Availability
Ordered from publisher
Language
English
Pages
192 pp.
Binding
Paperback
ISBN-13
9781551522647
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