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Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels

Justin Vivian Bond

Winner:Lambda Literary Award -Transgender Nonfiction (2012)
A moving and hilarious coming-of-age story about love, sex, and attention deficit disorder.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Feminist Press
  • Publish Date: Aug 16th, 2011
  • Pages: 144
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.40in - 5.20in - 0.50in - 0.40lb
  • EAN: 9781558617476
  • Categories: LGBTQ+Entertainment & Performing ArtsLGBTQ+ Studies - Gay Studies

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About the Author

Mx Justin Vivian Bond is a trans-genre artist living in New York City. As a performer both on and Off-Broadway, Mx Bond has received numerous accolades winning an Obie (2001), a Bessie (2004), a Tony nomination (2007), the Ethyl Eichelberger Award (2007), The Peter Reed Foundaton Grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Artists.

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Praise for this book

"[A] witty and touching memoir. . . [A] frank discussion of the ways in which [V] felt compelled to suppress [V's] emotions, [V's] sexuality, and [V's] true identity growing up. [V] suffered a great deal, and yet [V's] tone is never self-pitying." --New Yorker

"A story that is personal, yet undeniably universal at the same time." --Lambda Literary

"Bond's fabulosity is matched by a trenchant wit, and [V's] over-the-top stories are smartly edged with politics, sexual or otherwise." --New York Times

"A brief yet remarkably candid memoir of growing up different. . . Poignant and funny. . ." --Kirkus

"Thank you, Justin, for your courage in writing the truth of what you went through as a transgender child in this society. Thank you, also, for your sense of humor. This book is very important, and fun to read as well." --Yoko Ono, artist

"When I say Justin Vivian Bond is a true original, what I mean is, Justin doesn't resemble anyone else on the face of the planet. When I say Justin Bond is touched by genius, I mean exactly that." --Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

"Tango is a raw nerve touching an electric soul, a beautiful book, written with honesty, pain, and joy from one of our great modern day shamans." --Sandra Bernhard, comedian

"Justin Vivian Bond is a lightning rod, a solid steel structure in heels that attracts burning chaos and disciplines it into orderly submission. Am I allowed to say that Justin is God?" --Rufus Wainwright, musician

"Tango should be in the hands of every child who can read, and of
every adult who cares about that child." --Michael Warner, author of The Trouble with Normal

"Reading Tango is like listening to your favorite eccentric cousin or auntie tell you hair-raising tales of innocence lost and found, friendships forged of adversity, and bullies bewildered by their own perversity. Justin spins a one-of-a-kind story that you won't be able to put down." --Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw