Norah Vincent

Norah Mary Vincent (Satumba 20, 1968 - Yuli 6, 2022) marubuciya Ba'amurke ce. Ta kasance mawallafin mako-mako na Los Angeles Times kuma mai rubutun kwata-kwata kan siyasa da al'adu don mujallar labaran gay ta kasa mai ba da shawara . Ta kasance mai rubutun ra'ayi don Muryar Village da Salon.com . Rubuce-rubucenta sun bayyana a cikin Sabuwar Jamhuriya, The New York Times, [1] New York Post, The Washington Post da sauran littattafan lokaci-lokaci. [2] Ta sami kulawa ta musamman a cikin 2006 don littafinta na Mutumin da ya yi kansa, yana ba da cikakken bayani game da abubuwan da ta samu lokacin da ta rayu a matsayin mutum na tsawon watanni goma sha takwas.

## Rayuwar farko
An haifi Norah Mary Vincent a Detroit, kuma ta girma a can da kuma a Landan inda mahaifinta ya yi aiki a matsayin lauya na Kamfanin Motoci na Ford . [1] Ta halarci Kwalejin Williams, inda ta sauke karatu da BA a fannin falsafa a 1990, kafin ta fara karatun digiri a Kwalejin Boston . [2] [1] Ta kuma yi aiki a matsayin edita na Free Press . [1]

## Sana'a

### ''Mutum Mai Kansa''
Littafin Vincent Self-Made Man (2006) ya sake ba da labarin gwaji na watanni goma sha takwas a farkon 2000s inda ta canza kanta a matsayin namiji . [1] [2] An kwatanta wannan da aikin jarida na ɓoye a baya kamar Black Like Ni . [3] Vincent ya yi hira da Juju Chang akan shirin ABC News na 20/20 [4] kuma yayi magana game da kwarewa a cikin HARDtalk karin akan BBC a kan Afrilu 21, 2006, inda ta bayyana abubuwan da ta samu a cikin dangantaka tsakanin namiji da namiji da mace. Ta shiga kungiyar wasan kwallon kwando na maza duka, [1] ta shiga kungiyar kula da jiyya ta maza, ta tafi wurin shakatawa, [1] mata masu kwanan aure, kuma ta yi amfani da iliminta a matsayin ɗan Katolika [1] [4] [5] don ziyartar sufaye a cikin gidan sufi . [6]

Vincent ta rubuta cewa kawai lokacin da aka taba yi mata la'akari da wuce gona da iri shine lokacin zamanta na namiji. Alter ego ta, Ned, an ɗauka cewa ɗan luwaɗi ne a lokuta da yawa. Siffofin da aka ɗauka a matsayin butch lokacin da aka gabatar da ita a matsayin mace an ɗauke su a matsayin masu illa a lokacin da ta gabatar a matsayin namiji. Vincent ta tabbatar da cewa, tun bayan gwajin da aka yi mata, ta kara fahimtar fa'idar kasancewarta mace da kuma illolin kasancewarta namiji, tana mai cewa, "Ina matukar son zama mace... Ina son hakan a yanzu domin ina ganin ya fi gata." 

Vincent ta kuma bayyana cewa ta sami karin tausayi da fahimtar maza da kuma yanayin maza: "Maza suna shan wahala. Suna da matsaloli daban-daban fiye da yadda mata suke da su amma ba su da kyau. Suna buƙatar tausayinmu, suna buƙatar ƙaunarmu, kuma suna bukatar juna fiye da komai. Suna bukatar zama tare." 

### ''Hauka na son rai''
Littafin Vincent na *Voluntary Madness* (2008) ya ba da labarin abubuwan da ta samu a matsayin mara lafiya a cikin cibiyoyi uku na masu tabin hankali: "wani yanki a asibitin jama'a na jama'a, cibiyar Midwestern mai zaman kanta, da kuma asibitin New Age mai tsada."  Ta soki likitocin da ta ce ba za su iya kusantar su ba, lura da cewa da yawa sun dogara da kwayoyi a matsayin magani, yayin da wasu ke magana kawai bayyanar cututtuka maimakon abubuwan da ke haifar da su. 

Littafin Vincent ya kuma yi magana game da tambayar marasa lafiya da waɗanda suka kasance marasa lafiya saboda rashin yarda su ba da haɗin kai a cikin maganin su.  

### Daga baya aiki
Daga baya Vincent ya rubuta litattafai guda biyu: *Your Neighbor* (2012), wanda *New York Times* ya bayyana a matsayin "mai duhu, mai ban dariya", da kuma *Adeline* (2015), wanda ke tunanin rayuwar Virginia Woolf daga lokacin da ta rubuta *zuwa Hasken Haske* har sai da Woolf ya kashe kansa a 1941. 

## Rayuwa ta sirri, ra'ayoyi, da mutuwa
Vincent, wanda aka bayyana a matsayin ɗan madigo, ya yi aure da Kristen Erickson na ɗan lokaci, amma ba da daɗewa ba ya sake shi. 

An bayyana Vincent a matsayin mai sassaucin ra'ayi wanda ke sukar postmodernism da al'adu da yawa .  Ba ta yarda cewa masu canza jinsi ba su ne jima'i da suka gano a matsayin, matsayi da ya sa wani marubuci ya lakafta ta a matsayin mai son zuciya.  A cikin wata kasida don *Muryar Ƙauyen*, ta rubuta: "[Transsexuality] yana nuna mutuwar kai, rai, cewa mai kyau daɗaɗɗen indubitable 'Na' ƙaunataccen Descartes, wanda babban ma'anarsa ' Ina tsammanin, saboda haka ni ' ya zama wargi na ontological akan tsari na 'I tinker, kuma a can nake.'" 

A cikin *hauka na son rai*, Vincent ya ba da cikakken bayani game da tarihinta na tsawon shekaru goma tare da damuwa mai jurewa magani, yana mai cewa: "...kwaƙwalwa ba ta taɓa zama iri ɗaya ba bayan na zana shi da wannan hanya ta farko na SSRIs ."  Saboda kwarewar da ta samu a matsayinta na namiji a lokacin da ake yin *Mutumin da aka yi da kansa* a ƙarshe ta sami raguwar damuwa, wanda ya sa Vincent ta shigar da kanta a wani wurin da aka kulle ta, yana mai bayyana babban farashin da ta biya don "nauyin yaudara" na ainihi daban kuma don ƙoƙarin riƙe nau'i biyu na jinsi a cikin zuciyarta.  

Vincent ya mutu ta hanyar taimakon kashe kansa a wani asibiti a Switzerland a ranar 6 ga Yuli, 2022, yana da shekaru 53. Ba a bayar da rahoton mutuwarta ba sai Agusta 2022. 

## Labarai

* *Mutumin da Ya Yi Kai* (Viking Adult, 2006)  
* *Hauka na son rai* (Viking Adult, 2008) 
* *Maƙwabcinku* ( Viking Adult, 2012) 
* *Adeline: Wani Novel na Virginia Woolf* ( Houghton Miffin Harcourt, 2015) 

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

* An Archived labaran Muryar Kauye   
* Tony Dokoupil: Ann Marlowe, Memoir, da Mutumin da Ya Yi Kai  a *Sabon Bangaren*
* Sashen Shirin ABC News 20/20