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The natural mother of the child : a memoir of nonbinary parenthood / Krys Malcolm Belc.
"Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies the outsiderness the speaker, who is almost always addressing a cis "you," sometimes his mother, sometimes strangers, mostly his cis female partner. Instead of using a straight narrative, the book circles around this concept of motherhood and of my relationship to it. The book is also an archive of my queerness, of childhood photos of me smiling impossibly wide, of my original birth certificate and the legal documents surrounding Samson's adoption. It's a direct engagement with the documentation we think constitutes a record of one's life. The book ends on an exploration of how much we can really know when we enter into parenting a person, and of my ambivalence about the "before" and "after" that is so prevalent in trans stories and that feels so outside my experience as a nonbinary transmasculine person." -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781640094383
- ISBN: 1640094385
- Physical Description: 287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First hardcover edition.
- Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287).
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Available copies
- 11 of 11 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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- 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastchester Public Library | B BELC (Text) | 31008152473274 | Biography | Available | - |
| Irvington Public Library | BIO BELC, K (Text) | 31012154535288 | Biography | Available | - |
| Katonah Village Library | 306.874 B (Text) | 31013151927429 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Larchmont Public Library | 306.8743 M (Text) | 31014152970558 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Mamaroneck Public Library District | B BELC (Text) | 31015152628732 | Biography | Available | - |
| Mount Pleasant Public Library | B BELC, KRYS (Text) | 31024153249423 | Biography | Available | - |
| Mount Vernon Public Library | B MALCOLM BELC (Text) | 31018155564235 | Biography | Available | - |
| Warner Library | B BELC (Text) | 31033152286005 | Biography | Available | - |
| White Plains Public Library | BIOGRAPHY BELC, KRYS MALCOLM (Text) | 31544101233443 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | 306.87 M (Text) | 31035613065795 | Nonfiction | Available | - |