Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid

Fierce, Fabulous and Fluid tells us a new story of trans youth. It’s a story in which gender fluid young folks are not just dreaming of a better world, they are actively building one. For the trans students at East High inclusion is not enough, it is simply a starting point to build the world young folks envision and deserve. This world is characterized by trans joy and doesn’t just tolerate queer lives, but celebrates them. * C.J. Pascoe, author of Nice is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High * Slovin honors the seen and unseen labor that gender non-conforming youth perform as they work to survive high school. Slovin deftly shows gender nonconforming youth revel in their ambiguity and uncertainty, pushing at the edges of intelligibility. Slovin’s lesson, for educators and adults, asks us to honor and dwell in our own gender ambiguity and to recognize, in youth and ourselves, the radical potential of refusing the demands of gender normativity. * Jen Gilbert, author of Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education * A powerful ethnography. Slovin draws on extensive ethnographic experience to portray high school both as an oppressive environment striated by whiteness, colonialism, class privilege and heteropatriarchal sex and gender norms and as a space of resistance and transformation. * Travers, author of The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution *