Record Details


Enlarge cover image for The natural mother of the child : a memoir of <mark class='oils_SH title proper'>nonbinary</mark> parenthood Book

The natural mother of the child : a memoir of nonbinary parenthood

Malcolm Belc, Krys (author.).

Summary: "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." --

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781640094383
  • ISBN: 1640094385
  • Physical Description: print
    287 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-287).

Search for related items by subject

Subject:
Motherhood
Surrogate mothers
Adoption -- Law and legislation
Parenthood
Gender-nonconforming people
Transgender parents
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Adoption -- Law and legislation
Gender-nonconforming people
Motherhood
Parenthood
Surrogate mothers
Transgender parents

Available copies

  • 11 of 11 copies available at Westchester Library System.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
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 -
Next 10 »
Show more copies

Log in to Evergreen

Please enter your full library card number.
Example: 12340001234567
First time logging in?
Use the last 4 digits of your phone number.
Example: 0926
Request A Card
Forgot Your Password?