PrettyPretty

Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective--the tropes, the presumptions--"Pretty" is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change. Informed by their personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Brookins writes about the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as "other."