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Preciado, Paul B. -- Political and social views.
Transgender people -- Spain -- Biography.
Female-to-male transsexuals -- Spain -- Biography.
Transgender people -- Biography.
Female-to-male transsexuals -- Biography.
Gender transition.
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Preciado, Paul B.
Preciado, Paul B.
Preciado, Paul B. -- Political and social views.
Transgender people -- Spain -- Biography.
Female-to-male transsexuals -- Spain -- Biography.
Transgender people -- Biography.
Female-to-male transsexuals -- Biography.
Gender transition.
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An apartment on Uranus : chronicles of the crossing /
Paul
B
.
Preciado
; foreword by Virginie Despentes ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
by
Preciado
,
Paul
B
.
Semiotext(e), 2020.
Call #:
306.768092 P923a
Subjects
Preciado
,
Paul
B
.
Preciado
,
Paul
B
.
--
Political
and
social
views
.
Transgender people
--
Spain
--
Biography.
Female-to-male transsexuals
--
Spain
--
Biography.
Transgender people
--
Biography.
Female-to-male transsexuals
--
Biography.
Gender transition.
ISBN:
9781635901139 (pbk)
Uniform title:
Apartamento en Urano. English
Description:
263 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published as "Un apartamento sur Uranus" by Éditions Grasset in 2019.
A collection of the author's columns for the French newspaper Libération.
In English; translated from the original Spanish.
Summary:
"Uranus, the frozen giant, is the coldest planet in the solar system as well as a deity in Greek mythology. It is also the inspiration for uranism, a concept coined by the writer Karl Heinrich Ulrich in 1864 to define the “third sex” and the rights of those who “love differently.” Following Ulrich,
Paul
B
.
Preciado
dreams of an apartment on Uranus where he might live beyond existing power, gender and racial strictures invented by modernity. “My trans condition is a new form of uranism,” he writes. “I am not a man. I am not a woman. I am not heterosexual. I am not homosexual. I am not bisexual. I am a dissident of the gender-sex binary system. I am the multiplicity of the cosmos trapped in a binary
political
and epistemological system, shouting in front of you. I am a uranist confined inside the limits of technoscientific capitalism.” This book recounts
Preciado
's transformation from Beatriz into
Paul
B
., but it is not only an account of gender transitioning.
Preciado
also considers
political
, cultural, and sexual transition, reflecting on issues that range from the rise of neo-fascism in Europe to the technological appropriation of the uterus, from the harassment of trans children to the role museums might play in the cultural revolution to come. An Apartment on Uranus is a bold, transgressive, and necessary book."--Publisher.
Genre:
Essays.
Memoirs.
Other authors:
Despentes, Virginie, 1969-
Mandell, Charlotte.
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