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Attention: I was born a whole.
About this book
This is a book of letters. Letters to our body parts. Uncensored, *Attention: People With Body Parts* traces naked bodies with naked language. The project started in the summer of 2012, in which more than forty people were asked to speak to their finger nails, their skin, their cancer. These are the parts that carry stories and histories that layer our lives. They make the individual self-construct and self-destruct, and ultimately make us move. *Attention: People With Body Parts* has expanded to an online and outreach movement to increase its accessibility to all people (with body parts).
Themes & subjects
anthologieslettersbody imageembodimentpsychich traumaLGBTQ anthologies
About the author
Lexie Bean
~1992
Lexie Bean (they/he) is a white, nonbinary, trans, and neurodivergent artist whose work for the past 15 years has involved aiding fellow trans survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. They began their activism at a rape crisis hotline in rural Ohio, and have since published Written on the Body, an anthology of letters authored by survivors to their body parts of choice, and The Ship We Built, noted as the first middle-grade novel released by a major U.S. publisher centering a trans boy to be penned by one. Additionally, they have been interviewed by and written for Teen Vogue, Them, Kirkus Reviews, Autostraddle, and more, and serve on the leadership council for RAINN, the nation’s …
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