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I Knowing Me - a 28-page gender journey autobiography

A firsthand collection of events from my trangender experience, spanning from junior high years to mid-college days.

Available on Simple Goods as a .pdf folder for $5.50. No paypal involved, direct card transaction! (Use the code B&WTRANS for a 50% discount!)

Also available on Storenvy as a quality art book. Preorder ends February 1st, and books will be shipped that very week!

I Knowing Me was a semester-long art project for my comic class, but I also wanted to create something outreaching and long-lasting. Never in my life have I found a trans autobiography that I could relate to. So I decided to make my own. For the sake of myself, and others that might benefit from a more diverse trans visibility.

During the first few months of identifying as trans, I was overwhelmed by the negativity and other people’s presumptions of what it means to be trans. I lacked much of the ‘canonical’ trans experience as popularized by mainstream visibility, so I struggled with the fear that my identity wasn’t legitimate, amongst other worries that bogged up my mind and dragged me down. 

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