Like a boy but not a boy: navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary

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Bennett, Andrea (Andrea Kathleen)

Bennett, Andrea

Green Road Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional

Adult Non-Fiction

Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Non-Fiction
Fuquay-Varina Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Green Road Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Morrisville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Northeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Remote Storage - Adult Non-Fiction

"A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, class, and bike mechanics (apparently you can learn a lot about yourself through trueing a wheel). In "Tomboy," andrea articulates what it means to live in a gender in-between space, and why one might be necessary; "37 Jobs 21 Houses" interrogates the notion that the key to a better life is working hard and moving house. And interspersed throughout the book is "Everyone Is Sober and No One Can Drive," sixteen stories about queer millennials who grew up and came of age in small Canadian communities. With the same poignant spirit as Ivan Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide, Like a Boy addresses the struggle to find acceptance, and to accept oneself; and how one can find one's place while learning to make space for others. The book also wonders what it means to be an atheist and search for faith that everything will be okay; what it means to learn how to love life even as you obsess over its brevity; and how to give birth, to bring new life, at what feels like the end of the world. With thoughtfulness and acute observation, andrea bennettreveals intimate truths about the human experience, whether one is outside the gender binary or not."--

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Non Fiction

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Wake County Public Libraries

Express Library Fayetteville St.
Fuquay-Varina Community
Green Road Community
Leesville Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional

9781551528212

2020

Arsenal Pulp Press

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Bennett, Andrea -- (Andrea Kathleen)
Essays
Gender identity
Gender nonconformity
Gender-nonconforming people
Gender-nonconforming people -- Mental health
Parenthood
Sexual minority parents

Like a boy but not a boy : navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary

Like a boy but not a boy : navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary / Andrea Bennett

Like a boy but not a boy

navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary

Bennett, Andrea
Gender identity
Gender nonconformity
Gender-nonconforming people
Mental health
Parenthood
Sexual minority parents