Vivek Shraya

I'm Afraid of Men

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«Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind.»
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers and Milk and Honey
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a girl—and how we might reimagine gender for the twenty-first century

Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid. Throughout her life she's endured acts of cruelty and aggression for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine enough as a girl. In order to survive childhood, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As an adult, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal attacks to heartbreak.
Now, with raw honesty, Shraya delivers an important record of the cumulative…
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  • Jennifer Gutiérrezshared an impression3 years ago
    💩Utter Crap

    Si bien, el autor casi fue atinado al cuestionar masculinidades y feminidades, al final solamente fue un libro para desahogar quejas que caen en incoherencias. Demasiado victimismo. Demasiado pataleo.

  • Brenda Vásquezshared an impression2 years ago
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile

  • mermaidshared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile

Quotes

  • Brenda Vásquezhas quoted2 years ago
    Women who behave “badly” are ultimately not given the same benefit of the doubt as men and are immediately cast off as bitches or sluts. Men might be written off as
    “dogs,” but their reckless behaviour is more often unnoticed, forgiven, or even celebrated—hence our cultural fixation with bad boys.
  • Brenda Vásquezhas quoted2 years ago
    But your fear is not only hurting me, it’s hurting you, limiting you from being everything you could be. Consider how often you have dismissed your own appearance, behaviours, emotions, and aspirations for being too feminine or masculine. What might your life be if you didn’t impose these designations on yourself, let alone on me?
  • Brenda Vásquezhas quoted2 years ago
    How cruel it is to have endured two decades of being punished for being too girly only to be told that I am now not girly enough.
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