![]() ![]() It was the first book I read by a trans woman though I would read plenty of other trans books after it, I would always be in pursuit of the same feelings that Nevada evoked in me. Maria spends lots of time talking about being trans in LiveJournal-esque diatribes. in Star City, Nevada, and immediately identifies him as a trans girl who hasn’t worked out his shit yet. First published in 2013 by Topside Press, Imogen Binnie’s Nevada has been hailed as “the epicenter of trans femme lit.” In short, Nevada is about a trans woman named Maria, who flees her messy life in New York after a breakup she finds nineteen-year-old James H. If you are the sort of person who reads this sort of essay, odds are you know what Nevada is by now. As with any major decision in my life, I feel better the moment it’s passed. They live across the country, though they’ll visit me next week.Īwful. ![]() ![]() The monument of this decision has been weighing on me, keeping me from doing more reading in the past week than a handful of poems by Ada Limón or Mary Ruefle. I have just broken up with my boyfriend, the only out trans person I am close to. It is fall 2019, I am twenty-six years old, and I have spent over a year convincing myself that I am not a girl. ![]()
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