I’m willing to bet you’ve never read a memoir like Fairest. The book follows writer Meredith Talusan through her childhood in the Philippines (where, um, she was briefly a child star), her.
- Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a 'sun child' from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America.
- Talusan’s debut memoir, “Fairest,” embodies both Crenshaw’s original framework as well as its contemporary misunderstanding, rendering an intellectual debate intimate. Recounting her coming-of-age.
- Fairest by Meredith Talusan; GLAAD: Examining Ten Years of Transgender Images on Television; the Human Rights Campaign Foundation: Report on Violence Against Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming People.
- Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan (320 pages) A coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender.
Join us for the first of a new quarterly series to discuss issues of social justice and further explore topics from the LAJF panel discussions. Our goal is to provide a participatory space for sharing and mutual education for all camp alumni.
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The first book club selections will focus on gender and sexuality at the intersection of race and class, building on the conversation on LGTBQ+ inclusion we held last February, which you can watch here.
When
Sunday, April 18 2021 @ 12:30pm EST
What to read
We have selected two complementary works of different lengths for this first discussion. Read one, both, or as much as you can before attending the discussion time.
1. Fairest: A Memoir by Meredith Talusan (320 pages)
A coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender.
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Please note that this reading contains sensitive subject matter including suicide, racism, transphobia and homophobia, parental neglect, abuse, sex, drug addiction, prostitution, and gambling.
2. How Black Trans Women are Redefining Beauty Standards by Serena Soma (12 pages)
This is a collection of accounts from black transgender women on beauty, how their perspectives and behavior have shifted, and how this impacts the way they move through the world.
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Fairest By Meredith Talusan
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