Transanything : essays / Ever Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Ever, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans people.

Gender-nonconforming people.

Wolves.

Gray wolf.

Natural history.

Solitude.

Nature study.

transgenderism.

natural sciences.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xvi, 170 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Transanything reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seasons churn, all amid Ever Jones's own narrative of midlife gender transition. Jones takes up a tradition of writing--about the American landscape, solitude, wilderness, and the West--long intertwined with colonialism and heteropatriarchy, and makes it wholly their own. A self-proclaimed "nature essay" misbehaves, wandering away from the hummingbird outside Jones's window. In their chronicle of a week in Yellowstone, Jones navigates trails frequented by grizzlies and a campground where their identity is regarded as equally dangerous. Elk, bison, and bark spiders roam this book's pages, but it is the gray wolf--the embattled apex predator of the American West, narrow survivor of settler colonial violence, and vessel for American myths of independence--who emerges as Jones's shapeshifting coprotagonist. Taking on a global web of colonial systems that seek to divide us, Jones disrupts loneliness and forges space for queerness and transness to be aliveness--to be transanything."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Transanything

Unraveling I

In the Stance of Someone Just Departing

Lonely Species

Paperclip: A Story of Invasive Species

Unraveling II

Snap the Whip

Unraveling III

Paper Cranes

Unraveling IV

On Senses: A Nature Essay

Restoration of Wolves

Unraveling V

Grammar of Gender

The Uninvited

Unraveling VI

Origin of Love

Dragon

Wolf Tone

Unraveling VII

She Used to Be Mine: An Afterword

ISBN:

9780810148703

0810148706

OCLC:

1490363251