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African American transgender people Biography Gender identity Judges United States Biography Juvenile literature Manning, Chelsea 1987- Transgender women Transgender women United States Biography Transgenres féminins États-Unis Biographies United States Women Biography Women judges United States Biography Juvenile literatureGoetsch, Diana
Summary: "A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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Summary: "An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!--and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself. ANSWER: Who Is Amy Schneider? In eighth grade, Amy was voted "Most likely to appear on Jeopardy!" by her classmates. Decades later, this trailblazer finally got her chance. Not only did she walk away with $1.3 million...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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Summary: "A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of transformation and her work towards collective liberation. In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women's March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Summary: "Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, profoundly isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of an eighteenth-century Eastern European enclave, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life.Stein was born as the first son in a rabbinical dynastic family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Stein...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEIN, ABBY STEManning, Chelsea
Summary: While working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq for the United States Army in 2010, Chelsea Manning disclosed more than seven hundred thousand classified military and diplomatic records that she had smuggled out of the country on the memory card of her digital camera. In 2011 she was charged with twenty-two counts related to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MANNING, CHELSEA MANTalusan, Meredith
Summary: "A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and the search for love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TALUSAN, MEREDITH TALBillings, Alexandra
Summary: Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs, an award-winning actor, singer, and history-making LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist shares not only her ever-evolving story but also the parallel ways in which queer identity has dramatically changed since the Stonewall riots of 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books/Little A 2022
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Summary: "A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books, Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRADY-DAVIS, PRECIOUS BRAClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017