For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms - but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation. It’s a reminder that the coronavirus lockdown has not only laid waste to the launch schedule for Wonderland, but has forced the postponement of her wedding to Max Gallant, originally scheduled for June. She says: “It was not OK for a boy to like the Spice Girls as much as I did, but I couldn’t keep it in. Featuring insights from well-known gender, feminist and trans activists including Rebecca Root, Laura Bates, Gemma Cairney, Anthony Anaxagorou, Hannah Witton, Alaska Thunderfuck and many more, The Gender Games is a frank, witty and powerful manifesto for a world in which everyone can truly be themselves.

Roberto Michael Fuller Michael Grant Michael Marshall Smith Michael Naef Michael Rutger Michael Schudson Mick Herron Mike Berners-Lee Mike Brownlow Mike Love Mike Stirling Mikhail Gorbachev Mindy Mejia Misa Sugiura Molly Lefebure Muhammad H.Juno Dawson is an awarding-winning YA author who in 2015 announced her transition as a transgender woman and in this funny, sharply observed, magnificently sweary and seriously thought-provoking book that’s part memoir and partly a critique of modern society and its gender expectations, she picks apart what gender means and what people can do about it. She grew up in West Yorkshire and worked for several years as a teacher, specialising in PSHCE, before becoming a journalist. It explains how your gender can have an impact on your life, what it means to choose your own gender identity and the importance of gender equality.

These include screenwriting (she has five TV projects in development), a lifestyle podcast based on questions raised by Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, and a cult cabaret night, Club Silencio, which takes place four times a year in a former sex dungeon beneath a railway arch in Brighton. I really wanted to read this because I’ve seen and read so much about Juno Dawson online (and I think she may be one of the coolest people ever) and I have also been really eager to read more on the subject of gender and about the experiences of transgender people, like Juno. in public places and that instead it would be beneficial to use gender neutral language in these instances. It's written with a great understanding of how gender effects people everyday; making you question the world around you.Juno Dawson's approach to this topic is funny and approachable and I find myself agreeing with her a lot. Davies Sarah Ridley Sarah Vaughan Sara Thielker Sara Ugolotti Sasha Alsberg Satu Hämeenaho-Fox Scott Bergstrom Scott Garrett Sebastien de Castell Seishi Yokomizo Serena Molloy Serena Patel Seren Boyd Sergei Medvedev Sergio Sismondo Serhii Plokhy Seymour Hersh Shane Hegarty Shannon Hale Shappi Khorsandi Sharon Cohen Sharon Davey Sheridan Stewart Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay Sif Sigmarsdóttir Simon Berthon Simon Brew Simone Douglas Simon Garnett Simon James Green Simon Lelic Simon Morden Simon Scarrow Simon Toyne Slavoj Žižek Solange Ouellet Sophie Anderson Sophie Hannah Soren Kenner Spike Milligan Sr. The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both *WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017* *AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET* 'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it! I think what’s particularly good about Dawson’s book is that it’s written so conversationally – you can imagine sitting opposite her in a café listening to her tell you this. I was absolutely a product of Section 28, which became law the year I went to primary school and was revoked the year I went to university.

Dawson is witty and engaging and really helped me understand how it is that women who transition as adults are NOT socialized as male. She has published a number of fiction and non-fiction books for young adults, many concerned with social issues affecting young adults today, including This Book is Gay (on being young and LGBTQ+), Mind Your Head (a guide to mental health for young people) and Clean (a novel centred around a girl rising from the lows of heroin addiction).I always find autobiographical books difficult to review as I don't feel that I have the right to decide how good someone else's life is or has been so I always rate them based on how much I enjoyed the book and how thought provoking I found it and this was beyond thought provoking.

It was during an Australian book tour for Clean that the idea of appropriating Alice in Wonderland popped up. The story feels its way around the differences between the male and female orgasm, and is unflinching in its approach to date rape – the bewildering moment when consent is breached. For my fifth of my 20BooksofSummer I made a small substitution, staying on-list but promoting this one over “Black and British” because it’s also Pride Month, so I wanted to get this one reviewed by the end of the month.As a young trans woman doing internet dating, you’re going to attract heterosexual men, when all they are really interested in is that you’re a very specific body type.