num_pages: 319
description: A heart-wrenching eye-opening and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy (b) a girl (c) something in between or (d) all of the above. From the moment a doctor in Raleigh North Carolina put male on Jacob Tobia's birth certificate everything went wrong. Alongside male came many other far less neutral words: words that carried expectations about who Jacob was and who Jacob should be words like masculine and aggressive and cargo shorts and SPORTS!Naturally sensitive playful creative and glitter-obsessed as a child Jacob was given the label sissy. In the two decades that followed sissy joined forces with gay trans nonbinary and too-queer-to-function to become a source of pride and today a rallying cry for a much-needed gender revolution. Through revisiting their childhood and calling out the stereotypes that each of us have faced Jacob invites us to rethink what we know about gender and offers a bold blueprint for a healed world--one free from gender-based trauma and bursting with trans-inclusive feminism.From Jacob's Methodist childhood and the hallowed halls of Duke University to the portrait-laden parlors of the White House Sissy takes you on a gender odyssey you won't soon forget. Writing with the fierce honesty wildly irreverent humor and wrenching vulnerability that have made them a media sensation Jacob shatters the long-held notion that people are easily sortable into men and women. Sissy guarantees that you'll never think about gender--both other people's people's and your own--the same way again.
language: English
title: Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons