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Vivek shraya poetry6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() So far, the response to the book has been tremendously positive. Vivek Shraya: Currently, I am teaching, touring, and plotting future projects. What do you have going on right now? Are you teaching in addition to promoting the book? What has the response to the book been like so far? The Rumpus: I’m excited to talk about your stunning new book, I’m Afraid of Men. As a trans man, I, too, am concerned with defying our culture’s toxic gender norms and was eager to talk with Vivek about the spaciousness to be gained for everyone when we speak out in defiance of those norms. I’m Afraid of Men was released earlier this fall from Penguin Random House. ![]() She is prolific across many outlets: music, film, visual art, poetry, prose, and genre-defying hybrid texts. ![]() She is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at University of Calgary. Vivek is an award-winning Canadian author, artist, and musician. ![]() It is a manifesto for a new kind of resiliency that allows for the toll of trans women’s daily navigation of a broken and dysfunctional masculinity to be witnessed by audiences who perhaps have interest in trans stories only when they fit with colonialist narratives of overcoming, triumph, and success. How do you survive-and thrive-when our culture’s gender policing penalizes failure to conform, often to destructive ends? Bullied as a boy for being too feminine and harassed as an adult trans woman for not being feminine enough, Vivek Shraya’s new book I’m Afraid of Menis a rallying cry against assimilation. ![]()
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