Trans Time Travel Our Shared History
- 14 Jan 2027
- 9781837262335
- £20
- 240 pp
- 141×220mm
- 14 Jan 2027
- 9781837262359
- £15.99
- 256 pp
- 14 Jan 2027
- 9781837262366
- £22.99
- 9 hrs 18 min
In a few words
A journey through the cultural history, dark reality and hopeful future of trans experience by Baillie Gifford and Welcome Prize shortlisted writer Thomas Page McBee
In a few words
A journey through the cultural history, dark reality and hopeful future of trans experience by Baillie Gifford and Welcome Prize shortlisted writer Thomas Page McBee
In a few words
A journey through the cultural history, dark reality and hopeful future of trans experience by Baillie Gifford and Welcome Prize shortlisted writer Thomas Page McBee
Trans Time Travel is rigorously intelligent without ever sacrificing its humanity, precise without losing its sense of wonder. A work of extraordinary generosity and curiosity, weaving memoir, reporting, philosophy and cultural history into something wholly its own. This is the book I have been waiting for
Lena Dunham
Trans Time Travel is staggeringly beautiful. Thomas Page McBee’s writing is fluid, cinematic and deeply felt, lingering in the body long after the final page. It is an urgently needed and remarkable achievement that will forever transcend time and space
Elliot Page
Trans Time Travel is rigorously intelligent without ever sacrificing its humanity, precise without losing its sense of wonder. A work of extraordinary generosity and curiosity, weaving memoir, reporting, philosophy and cultural history into something wholly its own. This is the book I have been waiting for
Lena Dunham
Trans Time Travel is staggeringly beautiful. Thomas Page McBee’s writing is fluid, cinematic and deeply felt, lingering in the body long after the final page. It is an urgently needed and remarkable achievement that will forever transcend time and space
Elliot Page
Trans Time Travel is rigorously intelligent without ever sacrificing its humanity, precise without losing its sense of wonder. A work of extraordinary generosity and curiosity, weaving memoir, reporting, philosophy and cultural history into something wholly its own. This is the book I have been waiting for
Lena Dunham
Trans Time Travel is staggeringly beautiful. Thomas Page McBee’s writing is fluid, cinematic and deeply felt, lingering in the body long after the final page. It is an urgently needed and remarkable achievement that will forever transcend time and space
Elliot Page
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‘This is the book I have been waiting for’ LENA DUNHAM
‘Staggeringly beautiful’ ELLIOT PAGE
Award-winning author Thomas Page McBee takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey into the archives, illuminating four centuries of gender-variant history – and the cost, to all of us, of its erasure.
In this groundbreaking, urgent book, Thomas Page McBee gives us the lens of trans time – nonlinear, multiple, cyclical – a radical perspective that opens up new ways of seeing both the past and the future. Blending memoir, reportage, history and cultural criticism, he digs deep into our shared history, tracing the surprising ways stories of gender variance appear in the media and public record – and the alternating cycle of liberation and repressive backlash that leads to a collective historical amnesia.
Seeking to recover what has been lost, Trans Time Travel moves from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a complicated cultural touchstone (and Shelley’s personal connection to trans history), to the Public Universal Friend, an 18th-century genderless preacher and evangelist who taught and embodied gender equality, to outlaw and sex symbol Harry Allen who ‘smashed hearts’ at the turn of the twentieth century and inspired a play staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Personal, profound and perspective-shifting, Trans Time Travel reckons with a hostile present by looking back – and offers a clear-sighted, hopeful way forward.
More about
the book
‘This is the book I have been waiting for’ LENA DUNHAM
‘Staggeringly beautiful’ ELLIOT PAGE
Award-winning author Thomas Page McBee takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey into the archives, illuminating four centuries of gender-variant history – and the cost, to all of us, of its erasure.
In this groundbreaking, urgent book, Thomas Page McBee gives us the lens of trans time – nonlinear, multiple, cyclical – a radical perspective that opens up new ways of seeing both the past and the future. Blending memoir, reportage, history and cultural criticism, he digs deep into our shared history, tracing the surprising ways stories of gender variance appear in the media and public record – and the alternating cycle of liberation and repressive backlash that leads to a collective historical amnesia.
Seeking to recover what has been lost, Trans Time Travel moves from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a complicated cultural touchstone (and Shelley’s personal connection to trans history), to the Public Universal Friend, an 18th-century genderless preacher and evangelist who taught and embodied gender equality, to outlaw and sex symbol Harry Allen who ‘smashed hearts’ at the turn of the twentieth century and inspired a play staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Personal, profound and perspective-shifting, Trans Time Travel reckons with a hostile present by looking back – and offers a clear-sighted, hopeful way forward.
More about
the book
‘This is the book I have been waiting for’ LENA DUNHAM
‘Staggeringly beautiful’ ELLIOT PAGE
Award-winning author Thomas Page McBee takes readers on a kaleidoscopic journey into the archives, illuminating four centuries of gender-variant history – and the cost, to all of us, of its erasure.
In this groundbreaking, urgent book, Thomas Page McBee gives us the lens of trans time – nonlinear, multiple, cyclical – a radical perspective that opens up new ways of seeing both the past and the future. Blending memoir, reportage, history and cultural criticism, he digs deep into our shared history, tracing the surprising ways stories of gender variance appear in the media and public record – and the alternating cycle of liberation and repressive backlash that leads to a collective historical amnesia.
Seeking to recover what has been lost, Trans Time Travel moves from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a complicated cultural touchstone (and Shelley’s personal connection to trans history), to the Public Universal Friend, an 18th-century genderless preacher and evangelist who taught and embodied gender equality, to outlaw and sex symbol Harry Allen who ‘smashed hearts’ at the turn of the twentieth century and inspired a play staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Personal, profound and perspective-shifting, Trans Time Travel reckons with a hostile present by looking back – and offers a clear-sighted, hopeful way forward.
Praise for Thomas Page McBee:
'McBee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive
Roxane Gay
Reading Man Alive is like sitting with someone uncurling his hands, then holding them out to you, open, so that you can behold all the hard-won strength, insight, agility and love to be found there
Maggie Nelson
A quest for self-liberation, this loving and deeply intelligent exploration of contemporary masculinities is essential reading
Deborah Levy
Brave, honest and touchingly human
Elif Shafak
Praise for Thomas Page McBee:
'McBee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive
Roxane Gay
Reading Man Alive is like sitting with someone uncurling his hands, then holding them out to you, open, so that you can behold all the hard-won strength, insight, agility and love to be found there
Maggie Nelson
A quest for self-liberation, this loving and deeply intelligent exploration of contemporary masculinities is essential reading
Deborah Levy
Brave, honest and touchingly human
Elif Shafak
Praise for Thomas Page McBee:
'McBee takes us in his capable hands and shows us what it takes to become a man who is gloriously, gloriously alive
Roxane Gay
Reading Man Alive is like sitting with someone uncurling his hands, then holding them out to you, open, so that you can behold all the hard-won strength, insight, agility and love to be found there
Maggie Nelson
A quest for self-liberation, this loving and deeply intelligent exploration of contemporary masculinities is essential reading
Deborah Levy
Brave, honest and touchingly human
Elif Shafak
Thomas Page McBee
View profileThomas Page McBee’s Amateur was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize, named a best book of the year by the Sunday Times, BuzzFeed, Attitude and many others, and translated into multiple languages. In the course of reporting the book, Thomas became the first transgender man to ever fight in Madison Square Garden. His essays and reportage appear in the New York Times, Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair and many other outlets. He is also a television writer/producer, and his recent work architecting the transition story for Elliot Page’s character in The Umbrella Academy was nominated for a GLAAD award. He lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and dogs.
@ThomasPageMcBee | thomaspagemcbee.com
Thomas Page McBee
View profileThomas Page McBee’s Amateur was shortlisted for the Baillie-Gifford Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize, named a best book of the year by the Sunday Times, BuzzFeed, Attitude and many others, and translated into multiple languages. In the course of reporting the book, Thomas became the first transgender man to ever fight in Madison Square Garden. His essays and reportage appear in the New York Times, Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair and many other outlets. He is also a television writer/producer, and his recent work architecting the transition story for Elliot Page’s character on The Umbrella Academy was nominated for a GLAAD award. He lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and dogs.
@ThomasPageMcBee | thomaspagemcbee.com
Thomas Page McBee
View profileThomas Page McBee’s Amateur was shortlisted for the Baillie-Gifford Prize and the Wellcome Book Prize, named a best book of the year by the Sunday Times, BuzzFeed, Attitude and many others, and translated into multiple languages. In the course of reporting the book, Thomas became the first transgender man to ever fight in Madison Square Garden. His essays and reportage appear in the New York Times, Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, Vanity Fair and many other outlets. He is also a television writer/producer, and his recent work architecting the transition story for Elliot Page’s character in The Umbrella Academy was nominated for a GLAAD award. He lives outside Los Angeles with his wife and dogs.
@ThomasPageMcBee | thomaspagemcbee.com
