BOOK REVIEW: Trans Power : Own your gender by Juno Roche

Trans Power : Own your gender.

Juno Roche

The seriously strong point of this book is Roches’ capturing – via interview – of such a wide range of authentic lived experience, with an intersectional perspective that not only allows us to understand how life is lived today for many trans and queer folk but also tells, time and time again, of the shared experiences which define and connect.  The book, like Roche themselves is forthright, candid and blunt, exploring sex, passion, bodies and desire with a frankness which is both refreshing and relentless.

The book is packed with Roche’s opinions as well, presented directly and occasionally without subtle explanation and although provocative this distracted me.  It’s also filed with good humour, delicate moments of breath-taking honesty which illuminate lifetimes with the clarity of a lightning strike, shares advice from people hard won and points at deep themes which echo across all of these and our lives. Then we get back to Juno, again.  This is an interesting book about the future and present state of gender and another solid addition to the cannon of trans voices.

Roche’s book is a clarion call of ownership, and it rings clearly to those who can hear the walls of generational gender tumbling  around us, and adds energy to those dismantling them.  In this radical and emotionally raw book, Juno Roche pushes the boundaries of trans representation by redefining ‘trans’ as an identity with its own power and strength, that goes beyond the gender binary.

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