Kate Carroll de Gutes talks about gender identity, how she was a “girl by default” in a body that doesn’t fit in our culture. She talks family, politics, and more. She gives this advice to trans pre-teens, young adults, and parents of trans: “We will fight for gender and identity. You’re not alone.”
Kate Carroll de Gutes is a genderqueer writer whose work examines sexuality and qualities of gender expression in order to explore how butch women dismantle traditional modes of masculinity and inhabit a territory of masculine identity that has nothing to do with cisgender men. As critics have become louder and more oppositional about LGBTQ+ issues, Kate feels an urgent need to counter and subvert traditional images and narratives. Their first book, Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, won two national and one regional book awards. Learn more at katecarrolldegutes.com
More resources suggested by Kate:
Books:
Genderqueer by Maia Kobabe
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
ResourcesThe Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.orgThe Equality Federation https://www.equalityfederation.org/The National LGBTQ Task Force https://www.thetaskforce.org/
Lambda Legal https://www.lambdalegal.org
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Coffee, Grief and Gratitude is a created by Anne Gudger and Maria Gibson, a mom/daughter duo who talk about grief.
You can find them on Facebook at Coffee and Grief. Please join their private Facebook page: Coffee and Grief Community. You can also email them at: coffeeandgrief@gmail.com
Anne’s memoir, THE FIFTH CHAMBER, a memoir of loss and love, launched September 2023. It’s available wherever you buy your books or https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=The+Fifth+Chamber+by+Anne+Gudger or Amazon https://bit.ly/3nZIvEy
Write Your Grief Out is currently full. Our next writing group will be in February 2024.
