Transitional: In One Way or Another, We All Transition

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I’m looking forward to sharing a piece of work where people can actually read what I’m about firsthand, instead of seeing me when I pop up in the papers every now and again,” she said. Attitude ‘Transitional is a clever, moving book that packs a lot into its 194 pages’ GuardianTransitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. En conséquence, toutes les commandes passées en ligne entre le 26 et le 31 janvier seront retardées.

This book is a fantastic starting point for anyone curious about the spectral nature of identity and sexuality. It's in this era of the complete dehumanisation of trans people that Munroe Bergdorf's debut book, Transitional , is needed more than ever. As a model and an outspoken activist, who was hired and fired by L’Oréal in the space of a week in 2017 over comments she made in response to violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Bergdorf said she felt that, until now, “my intelligence has been undermined, and I’ve been underestimated a lot in a lot of different instances”. Transitional is a memoir and manifesto by Munroe Bergdorf, trans model and activist, exploring her childhood and growing up, finding love, sex, and fame, and living as a Black woman.After an 11-way bidding war, in July 2020, Munroe signed a six-figure book deal with the UK’s largest independent publishing house, Bloomsbury. Just as she emerges with a contract, she is embroiled in controversy for speaking out on racism and standing in solidarity with the people of Charlottesville. Munroe Bergdorf continues to make history … The energy Bergdorf has for the causes she believes in is evident. Exploring change as an essential part of human experience and the fluidity of identity and relationships, as well as sexuality and gender, Bergdorf’s empowering book speaks compellingly of transition as an experience every person faces in every phase of life.

I bought it thinking it was a memoir or autobiography but it’s actually “reflections from her own life”, so the life story we’re given is incomplete, somewhat self-serving and feels dishonest. She was Black, of mixed heritage, in a town where the only other Black people she saw were two girls who had been adopted by white parents; she was an effeminate boy, repeatedly ostracised and bullied for being different, not only by her peers, but by her peers’ parents, too. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. None of us ever becomes someone else entirely – regardless of how we identify – but nor do we stay the same forever. She is very open but you don't come away feeling like you know her at all, and the structure is a bit all over the place.Exploring race, gender, lgbtq+ rights, and many other significantly important issues, Transitional is Munroe Bergdorf’s powerful story about how she overcame challenges and how she fought for equality and change.

The first book by Munroe Bergdorf, a manifesto on gender by the black transgender activist and model, has been bought for a six-figure sum after a bidding war between 11 publishers.It is one of the most fundamental aspects of the human condition – a part of our experience as a conscious being, no matter who we are. I was rapidly approaching my thirties and still living pay cheque to pay cheque, trying to keep my mental health from taking a complete nosedive in the way it had in the past. As someone who often struggles to really ingest academic writing, but who has a keen interest in social issues, the way that Bergdorf has so expertly combined her own story with such beautifully constructed discussions of the relevant issues absolutely shone through to me. I would be pointed at and shouted at, spat at, told I shouldn’t be near kids, treated like a monster, but also I would be followed by men who knew that I was trans but who would objectify me in ways that were extremely sexual.