Transposes
Transposes, Northwest Press, 2012
Transposes is out from Northwest Press in 2012!
See what critics and readers are saying about Transposes
Transposes separates gender from sexuality and illustrates six fascinating true stories of transgender men who also happen to be queer. The result is laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreaking, challenging, inventive, informative, and invites the reader to explore what truly makes a man a man.
Includes a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Alison Bechdel (Fun Home, Are You My Mother?).
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Excerpts
The 5-page illustrated introduction to the book.
Cal travels to New York to visit friends, and to have an adventure with an online hookup.
For all the process junkies in the audience. These are the pencils for Adam’s chapter. Adam’s story is about coming to grips with being trans while identifying as a gay man.
Praise for Transposes
From the foreword by Alison Bechdel — “Transposes will teach you something about what it means to have a body and to feel desire. About what it means, in short, to be human.”
Review on Lambda Literary by Cathy Camper – “A major step to breaking down closet doors is to provide venues for trans* people to see themselves. Edward’s graphic novel does just that …. Edwards’ black and white comics are open and inviting, making it easy for readers to get a quick overview of many different queer FTM lives. This accessibility also makes Transposes a good resource for gender workshops or other situations where it’s helpful to easily compare different people’s life stories.”
Article on Sequential Tart by Katie Frank – “Transposes uses different presentations for each story — a staged speech, flashbacks, a museum exhibit — to take the reader through important moments in the interviewees’ lives. This technique makes the stories both personal and relatable, and also highlights, in a lighthearted way, the weirdness of the exercise of interrogating people about the intimate details of their lives.”
Review on Gay People’s Chronicle by Anthony Glassman — “Simply put, this is probably some of the best work put out in the graphic novel universe about transgender issues. It is easy to see how someone would read this book, then come back and re-read it six months or a year later. It’s warm, it’s fun, it’s… caring. And there’s not enough of that in the world today.”
Review on The Gay Comics List by François Peneaud — “There is a risk, in any biographical story, of making the reader feel like a voyeur. But Edwards made a wise decision: letting each of those men tell their own story by using a first-person narrative. Even though he states that he took a few fictional liberties and changed names to protect their privacy, that choice gives symbolic power to the person talking about their life.”
Review on GayLeague.com by Joe Palmer — “In relating these struggles and accomplishments Transposes will be a source of hope, inspiration, and encouragement to any one questioning their gender. It is my humble opinion that cisgendered readers will be able to find motivation from these stories to live life on their own terms. As for me, I was drawn into each story, wincing at the slights and mistreatment, admiring everyone’s characteristic determination, and cheering their triumphs.”
Review by Andrew J. Peters — “The stories frankly address such topics as coming out in a lesbian relationship (‘Adam’), male role models and gay identities (‘Avery’), as well as STIs (‘Blake’) and recovery from childhood sexual abuse (‘Aaron & James’). As such, I think Transposes is a trusty guidebook for young adults navigating the discovery of gender and sexual identity, and really for older adults too.”
Review on Sequential Tart by Wolfen Moondaughter — “Having trans friends and seeing their struggles, I think this work is vitally important to opening eyes in the general populace, hopefully making people more aware, understanding and compassionate. And besides all that, the book is also a great collection of both biographical and slice-of-life stories, period.”
Review on Sequential Tart by Patti Martinson — “A very good and revelatory compilation of the just how varied the gender-spectrum is and how wonderful it can be as well.”
