Shon Faye

Uncommonly wise and honest Love in Exile flooded me with a sense of continuity and hope A masterpiece from start to finish Maggie Nelson We ache for love but love eludes us Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be humanShon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her Not just romantic love the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life It was a fear that would erupt in destructive counterfeit versions of the real love she craved addictions and short lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical or excruciatingly painful and unhinged often both Faye s experience of the world as a trans woman who grew up visibly queer exacerbated her fears But as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture Love she argues is as much a collective question as a personal one Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable In this highly politicized terrain boundaries are purposefully drawn t

¿POR QUÉ TODO EL MUNDO HABLA DE LO TRANS?Podría extrañarnos de entrada ese interés sospechosamente repentino por la liberación de una minoría. Y sin embargo el debate, partidista e ignorante, sobre riesgos y supuestos anecdoticos, predomina en los medios. Un debate y una polemica que a menudo pasan por alto el sufrimiento y la dignidad de sus protagonistas. Este libro es el texto definitivo para entender el debate, pero sobre todo para empezar a escuchar a las personas.Tambien es la historia de una lucha que deberia ser de todxs. Por todxs y por todo. Que va mas alla de la escena en el vestuario deportivo o en el baño de un bar. Que tiene que ver con la vivienda, la sanidad, el trabajo, el amor, la vida. Que tiene que ver con el mundo en el que queremos vivir.EL ENSAYO DEFINITIVO SOBRE LA CUESTION TRANSGENEROUna obra monumental sobre como deberia ser el mundo. JUDITH BUTLERShon Faye nos muestra con valentia y lucidez que la lucha trans es la lucha de todxs. OWEN JONESLa aprobacion de la Ley Trans desato en España una polemica de alto voltaje muy similar a la de otros paises. Leer a Shon Faye, referente absoluto de estos temas en Gran Bretaña, nos enseña no solo que el tema es global, sino que urge entenderlo para que nadie mas sufra sus consecuencias.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFew books are as urgent as Shon Fayes debut ... Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should weIndependentUnsparing, important and weighty ... a vitally needed antidoteObserverA moving and impressively comprehensive overview of trans lifeVogue Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war issue. Despite making up less than one per cent of the countrys population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized debate which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice. In this powerful new book, Shon Faye reclaims the idea of the transgender issue to uncover the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In doing so, she provides a compelling, wide-ranging analysis of trans lives from youth to old age, exploring work, family, housing, healthcare, the prison system and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities, in contemporary Britain and beyond.The Transgender Issue is a landmark work that signals the beginning of a new, healthier conversation about trans life. It is a manifesto for change, and a call for justice and solidarity between all marginalized people and minorities. Trans liberation, as Faye sees it, goes to the root of what our society is and what it could be; it offers the possibility of a more just, free and joyful world for all of us.Fundamentally not a culture-war book. It operates outside the narrow coverage of trans people in the mainstream, and lays bare the inarguable factsNew StatesmanMonumental and utterly convincing - crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be Judith Butler

¿POR QUÉ TODO EL MUNDO HABLA DE LO TRANS? Podría extrañarnos de entrada ese interés sospechosamente repentino por la liberación de una minoría. Y sin embargo el debate, partidista e ignorante, sobre riesgos y supuestos anecdoticos, predomina en los medios. Un debate y una polemica que a menudo pasan por alto el sufrimiento y la dignidad de sus protagonistas. Este libro es el texto definitivo para entender el debate, pero sobre todo para empezar a escuchar a las personas. Tambien es la historia de una lucha que deberia ser de todxs. Por todxs y por todo. Que va mas alla de la escena en el vestuario deportivo o en el baño de un bar. Que tiene que ver con la vivienda, la sanidad, el trabajo, el amor, la vida. Que tiene que ver con el mundo en el que queremos vivir. EL ENSAYO DEFINITIVO SOBRE LA CUESTION TRANSGENERO Una obra monumental sobre como deberia ser el mundo. JUDITH BUTLER Shon Faye nos muestra con valentia y lucidez que la lucha trans es la lucha de todxs. OWEN JONES La aprobacion de la Ley Trans desato en España una polemica de alto voltaje muy similar a la de otros paises. Leer a Shon Faye, referente absoluto de estos temas en Gran Bretaña, nos enseña no solo que el tema es global, sino que urge entenderlo para que nadie mas sufra sus consecuencias.

The acclaimed Top 10 Sunday Times bestseller on our search for loveUncommonly wise and honest. Love in Exile flooded me with a sense of continuity and hope. A masterpiece, from start to finish- Maggie NelsonShon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It was a fear that would erupt in destructive, counterfeit versions of the real love she craved: addictions and short-lived romances that were either euphoric and fantastical, or excruciatingly painful and unhinged, often both. Fayes experience of the world as a trans woman, who grew up visibly queer, exacerbated her fears. But, as she confronted her damaging ideas about love and lovelessness, she came to realize that this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a much larger problem in our culture.Love, she argues, is as much a collective question as a personal one. Yet our collective ideals of love have developed in a society which is itself profoundly sick and loveless; in which consumer capitalism sells us ever new, engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. In this highly politicized terrain, boundaries are purposefully drawn to keep some in and to keep others out. Those who exist outside them are ignored, denigrated, exiled.In Love in Exile, Shon Faye shows love is much greater than the narrow ideals we have been taught to crave so desperately that we are willing to bend and break ourselves to fit them. Wise, funny, unsparing, and suffused with a radical clarity, this is a book of and for our times: for seeing and knowing love, in whatever form it takes, is the meaning of life itself.