Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender -- Kit Heyam, Paperback Bibles Frank Baum's classic features gorgeous

Frank Baum's classic features gorgeous printed and sprayed edges and colored endpapers designed with an Ex Libris bookplate In time to celebrate the forthcoming film adaptation of Wicked starring Cynthia Erivo

Shep promises the separations will soon come to an end

he hears the plot

while later chapters range from Marguerite Yourcenar and V

their fight to survive

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender -- Kit Heyam, Paperback Bibles Frank Baum's classic features gorgeousA "vital" (New York Times Book Review), groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today's narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people's lives. Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present,