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The Choice Is Real

by Jayson Keery
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781988355344
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Metatron Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Metatron Press
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 88
  • Original Price: GBP 12.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 349 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General and LGBTQ+

An odd celebration and criticism of girlhood from a transmasculine subjectivity.

Challenging the conventions of how queer and trans people are encouraged to tell their stories, The Choice is Real engages the concept of choice in queerness and trivializes the linear "born-this-way" narratives that queer people are sold. In response to a second puberty brought on by medical transition and an unravelling of family structures following the death of their stepmother, Keery regresses through a warped and foreboding childhood landscape saturated with pop culture iconography. Writing with and against Disney classics, Keery moves between formative memories and contemporary moments, weaving in accounts of current relations in their playful uprooting of assumptions of queer relationality. Opening with a cheeky epigraph from trans author and activist Lou Sullivan: "I love being a girl. So delicate," The Choice is Real explodes with celebration and criticism of girlhood from a transmasculine perspective.

Jayson Keery is based in Western Massachusetts, where they completed their MFA in poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Choice Is Real is their first full-length collection. They are the author of the chapbook Astroturf (o-blēk editions, edited by Peter Gizzi, 2022). Their work has appeared in Boulevard, Black Warrior Review, Hot Pink, b l u s h lit, Peach Mag, and others. They have been anthologized in Mundus Press's Nocturnal Properties, Nightboat Books' We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, and Pilot Press London's A Queer Anthology of Rage. They received the 2022 Metatron Press Prize for Rising Authors, selected by Fariha Róisín, and the 2021 Daniel and Merrily Glosband MFA Fellowship, selected by Wendy Xu. A complete list of publications, awards, and interviews live online at JaysonKeery.com.

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