![]() ![]() ![]() This book expands on that widely shared essay. Less than a month after the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Alexander published an essay in The New Yorker titled "The Trayvon Generation, in which she wrote about the young people who had grown up in the past 25 years, repeatedly watching stories that "instructed them that anti-Black hatred and violence were never far., Her worry for that generation, including for her own sons, was braided with a consideration of the "creative emergences, in Black communities. 'The Trayvon Generation,' by Elizabeth Alexander ![]() Her new memoir is about her own transition and the story of the trans community over the course of her lifetime. In a blog for The American Scholar in 2015, Goetsch wrote about how she "longed daily to be a woman, a longing she had suppressed since childhood. Her success as a writer and public-school teacher masked a decadeslong depression. In 2013, at 50, Goetsch's life started to collapse. 'This Body I Wore: A Memoir,' by Diana Goetsch ![]()
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