Health guide targets transgender people of colour
Freeing Ourselves provides a wealth of information that transcends trans-anything
By Mercedes Allen
| January 5, 2012
http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2012/01/freeing-ourselves-guide-health-and-self-love-brown-boisFreeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois
by The Brown Bois Project
(The Brown Bois Project,
2011;
By donation)
Trans bodies should come with an owner's manual.
That thought was likely the inspiration for Freeing Ourselves: A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois, an introspective health-focused guidebook by The Brown Boi Project, a collective of contributors committed to compiling that manual capably and in an engaging way. The Brown Boi Project describe themselves as a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen and allies "who are committed to transforming our privilege of masculinity, gender and race into tools for achieving Racial and Gender Justice."
It's clear that a tremendous amount of commitment, care and artistic vision went into this book, which could be described as the fusion of the organic and sometimes edgy spontaneity and personal touch of testimonials and poetry that one would find in a 'zine with a wealth of sage advice, professional design and stunning photography.
