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    The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

    Written by Mark Gevisser

    Narrated by Mark Gevisser and Vikas Adam

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    One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020

    This program includes a foreword and epilogue read by the author

    A groundbreaking look at how the issues of sexuality and gender identity divide and unite the world today

    More than five years in the making, Mark Gevisser’s The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World’s Queer Frontiers is a globetrotting exploration of how the human rights frontier around sexual orientation and gender identity has come to divide—and describe—the world in an entirely new way over the first two decades of the twenty-first century. No social movement has brought change so quickly and with such dramatically mixed results. While same-sex marriage and gender transition is celebrated in some parts of the world, laws are being strengthened to criminalize homosexuality and gender nonconformity in others. A new Pink Line, Gevisser argues, has been drawn across the world, and he takes readers to its frontiers.

    In between sharp analytical chapters about culture wars, folklore, gender ideology, and geopolitics, Gevisser provides sensitive and sometimes startling profiles of the queer folk he’s encountered on the Pink Line’s frontiers across nine countries. They include a trans Malawian refugee granted asylum in South Africa and a gay Ugandan refugee stuck in Nairobi; a lesbian couple who started a gay café in Cairo after the Arab Spring, a trans woman fighting for custody of her child in Moscow, and a community of kothis—“women’s hearts in men’s bodies”—who run a temple in an Indian fishing village.

    Eye-opening, moving, and crafted with expert research, compelling narrative, and unprecedented scope, The Pink Line is a monumental—and vital—journey through the border posts of the world’s new LGBTQ+ frontiers.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    "    Narrator Vikas Adam's assured tone focuses listeners on the people who share their lived experiences in Malawi, Palestine, Mexico, Uganda, the United States, and elsewhere...Essential explorations of past and present events involving gender identity and sexuality illuminate their struggles for equality and acceptance amid legal and social persecution." -- AudioFile Magazine

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJul 28, 2020
    ISBN9781250752857
    Author

    Mark Gevisser

    Mark Gevisser's previous books include the award-winning A Legacy of Liberation: Thabo Mbeki and the Future of South Africa's Dream, and Lost and Found in Johannesburg: A Memoir. He writes frequently for Guardian, The New York Times, Granta, and many other publications. He helped organise South Africa's first Pride March in 1990, and has worked on queer themes ever since, as a journalist, film-maker and curator. He lives in Cape Town.

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      I truly don't even know what to say about this book. It's horrifically transphobic. The author makes a point of deadnaming and misgendering nearly every trans person mentioned. In the chapter dedicated to discussing trans folks and our struggles you can tell from the writing he agrees with most of the opposition and hate levelled at us. I'm used to a certain level of transphobia in all queer books, but this was more than even I could stomach

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