As Beautiful As Any Other: A memoir of my body

Author(s): Kaya Wilson

Biography

When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame.   As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of the forces that have shaped Wilson's life, and his body: vulnerability and power, grief and trauma, science and narrative.   In this powerful and lyrical memoir, Wilson makes a case for the strength we find when we confront the complexities of our identity with compassion. As Beautiful As Any Other is a trailblazing debut of remarkable beauty, insight and candour.


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Kaya Wilson has had an extraordinary life so far. Born to a couple of traveling teachers she was raised in the UK, Indonesia. Tanzania. Germany and Australia. A promising swimmer and environmental scientist. An upbringing in cold boarding schools, in comfort, in poverty, in revolution and flight. An upbringing with a sense of otherness, until a life-changing, paralysis-threatening surfing accident prompted the long—supressed realisation that Kaya was a man in a woman’s body, and the challenging road to address this.


The book is structured by theme rather than chronologically Trauma, travel, love, death and so on. Wilson reflects on these with a poetic and unflinching eye, addressing issues like the Me-Too movement and our current environmental catastrophe.


A unique, captivating story.

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General Fields

  • : 9781760984885
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia
  • : Picador Australia
  • : 0.3
  • : December 2020
  • : {"length"=>["23.3"], "width"=>["15.4"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
  • : May 2021
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Kaya Wilson
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 306.768092
  • : 304
  • : BM