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Additional authors

1. Nandini Murali

Description

1. xxxiv, 237 pages; 20 cm

Summary

1. "When Revathi's powerful memoir, The Truth About Me, first appeared in 2011, it caused a sensation. Readers learned of Revathi's childhood unease with her male body, her escape from her birth family to a house of hijras (the South Asian generic term for transgender people), and her eventual transition to being the woman she always knew she was. This new book charts her remarkable journey from relative obscurity to becoming India's leading spokesperson for transgender rights and an inspiration to thousands. Revathi describes her life, her work in the NGO Sangama, the which works with people across a spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations, and how she rose from office assistant to director in the organization. Today she is an independent activist, theatre person, actor and writer, and works for the rights of transgender persons. In the second part of the book, Revathi offers the reader an insight into one of the least talked about experiences on the gender trajectory: that of being trans men. Calling several female-to-male trans persons her 'sons, ' Revathi puts before us their moving, passionate and sometimes tragic stories of marginalization, courage, resistance and triumph"--

Subject

1. Rēvati
2. Rēvati
3. SANGAMA (Organization : India)
4. Trans women
5. Male-to-female transsexuals > India > Biography
6. Transgender people > India > Biography
7. Social work with transgender people > India
8. Psychiatric social work
9. Two-spirit people
10. Transgender Persons
11. Social Work, Psychiatric
12. Transsexuelles > Inde > Biographies
13. Transgenres > Inde > Biographies
14. Service social aux transgenres > Inde
15. Service social psychiatrique
16. Personnes bispirituelles
17. Male-to-female transsexuals
18. Social work with transgender people
19. Transgender people
20. India

Genre/Form

1. Autobiography
2. autobiographies (literary works)
3. Autobiographies
4. Biographies
5. Autobiographies.

Contents

1. Revathi's introduction: Beyond black and white -- Nandini's Introduction: A shared sisterhood -- 1. Biology is not destiny -- 2. Finding my daughters -- 3. A turning point -- 4. A struggle for human dignity -- 5. My rights as a trans woman -- 6. A writer born -- 7. To famila, with love -- 8. Criminalized by law -- 9. A momentous decision -- 10. Life as performance -- 11. Finding my sons -- 12. Fatherhood -- 13. A love against all odds -- 14. Challenging life -- 15. Boys to men -- 16. Birth of a man -- 17. Emperor Penguins -- 18. Where are all the f2ms? Trans visibility and organizing -- 19. I have a dream -- 20. The Supreme Court Judgement -- 21. A ray of hope.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

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