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Girl Mans Up by M.E. Girard5/10/2023 ![]() “’How do you know you’re not a boy?’” Olivia asks Pen about halfway through the book. She feels solidly that she is a girl Girl Mans Up is not a transition story. Her brother is her most intimate confidant but she also develops a deep and unlikely bond with her best friend’s pregnant ex-girlfriend, Olivia. She helps her Portuguese immigrant mother out around the house, but prefers to dig ditches in the yard. She has friends who are girls and friends who are boys. ![]() Its’ protagonist, Pen - short for Penelope - loves button up shirts, ripped jeans, muscle tees, and nerding out about vintage video games. M-E Girard’s debut novel Girl Mans Up, out this September, is written in this much-needed language. “The fact is,” writes Kate Bornstein, “that for many of us, it doesn’t matter what the latest theorist or social politician has to say about gender, we simply feel ours is either right and complete or it isn’t.” Bornstein calls our ineffable feelings about our gender “spiritual,” insisting, “We need a language to talk about those feelings.” The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now. ![]()
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