Saturday, May 28, 2011
Nina Here Nor There: Whose Narrative Is It?
Posted by Gina at 8:45 AM
http://skipthemakeup.blogspot.com/2011/05/whose-narrative-is-it-nina-here-nor.htmlNick Krieger's new transition autobiography "Nina Here Nor There" joins the bookcase of similar such stories albeit with a slight twist—his is clearly a genderqueer transition. It joins people like Kate Bornstein, s. bear bergman and, perhaps Leslie Feinberg snuggling in the GQ corner of the "transgender umbrella" and markedly away from the "born/trapped in the wrong bod... I've always really been a man/woman" nether regions. It has the curious subtitle of "My Journey Beyond Gender" —odd in this case because gender (along with endless ruminations about top surgery) dominates the subject matter of the book.
In many regards, the book is clearly aimed at a youthful "San Francisco/wannabe living in the Mission district/bicycling/Post-Modern/post-gender capital Q queer" readership (and their respective partners) weaned on the reading lists of college Gender Studies departments. And there's nothing wrong with that.
