{"product_id":"9781988355344","title":"The Choice Is Real","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11px\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn odd celebration and criticism of girlhood from a transmasculine subjectivity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size:11px\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\"\u003eChallenging the conventions of how queer and trans people are encouraged to tell their stories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Choice is Real \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\"\u003eengages the concept of choice in queerness and trivializes the linear “born-this-way” narratives that queer people are sold. In response to a second puberty brought on by medical transition and an unravelling of family structures following the death of their stepmother, Keery regresses through a warped and foreboding childhood landscape saturated with pop culture iconography. Writing with and against Disney classics, Keery moves between formative memories and contemporary moments, weaving in accounts of current relations in their playful uprooting of assumptions of queer relationality. Opening with a cheeky epigraph from trans author and activist Lou Sullivan: “I love being a girl. So delicate,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Choice is Real \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color:transparent; color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\"\u003eexplodes with celebration and criticism of girlhood from a transmasculine perspective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jayson Keery","offers":[{"title":"Metatron Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-05-19","offer_id":44187285029119,"sku":"9781988355344","price":20.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_e704c746-db7a-439d-bdd1-2b2b69c93f78.jpg?v=1695188749","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781988355344","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}