Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Style:Paperback Now change-averse Simon has to

Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends

When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge (close enough)

for speaking out on issues of gender

Presented for the first time in one volume with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski

Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad Style:Paperback Now change-averse Simon has toBy: Hil Malatino Some daysor weeks, or months, or even yearsbeing trans feels bad. Yet as Hil Malatino points out, there is little space for trans people to think through, let alone speak of, these bad feelings. Negative emotions are suspect because they unsettle narratives of acceptance or reinforce virulently phobic framings of trans as inauthentic and threatening. In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that