Calling My Deadname Home: The Trans Bear Diaries Ralph Manheim Olivia Laing draws on her

Olivia Laing draws on her own background in protest and alternative medicine to investigate the reasons why

In this wondrous graphic journey

all in a jumble

suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase

award-winning author of Physical

Calling My Deadname Home: The Trans Bear Diaries Ralph Manheim Olivia Laing draws on herIn this extraordinarily compelling trans memoir, Avi, a bearish trans man and Psychology Professor, navigates sex and dating in a phallic centric universe of men who love men. But something is missing. To become the man he aspires to be, he needs to reconnect with Talia, his hyper feminine straight female past, and invite her back in. Growing up in a working class right wing Israeli family and barely finishing high school, he became involved in pro