Reverse cowgirl
McKenzie Wark (Author)
"What if you were trans and didn't know it? You have some hole in your life and do not even know iwhy it is there. You go through days, years not knowing why you only feel at home in your body in peak moments of drugs and sex. You distract yourself to avoid an absence, a hole in being. Traveling from Sydney in the 1980s to New York today, Reverse Cowgirl is a comedy of errors, chronicling the author's failed attempts at being gay and at being straight across the shifting political and media landscapes of the late twentieth century. Finding that the established narratives of being trans don't seem to apply to her, Wark borrows from the genres of autofiction, autotheory, and new narrative to create a writing practice that can discover the form of a life outside existing accounts of trans experience: an autoethnography of the opacity of the self" -- Back cover
Print Book, English, 2020
Semiotext(e), South Padadena, CA, 2020