Gender Failure [Paperback]

Being a girl was something that never really happened for me. —Rae Spoon

Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted gender failures. In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all.

Based on their acclaimed 2012 live show that toured across the United States and in Europe,Gender Failureis a poignant collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images documenting Ivan and Rae's personal journeys from gender failure to gender enlightenment. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, it's a book that will touch LGBTQ readers and others, revealing, with candor and insight, that gender comes in more than two sizes.

Ivan E. Coyoteis the author of six story collections and the award-winning novelBow Grip, and is co-editor ofPersistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. Ivan frequently performs at high schools, universities, and festivals across North America.

Rae Spoonis a transgender indie musician whose most recent CD isMy Prairie Home, which is also the title of a new National Film Board of Canada documentary about them. Rae's first book,First Spring Grass Fire, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2013.