Recommendation: Confessions of an Empty Purse

S. McDonald recommends…

Confessions of an Empty Purse
Book

“Confessions of an Empty Purse” is a poetic transmemoir of growing up “gender terrified” in Toronto’s “Cabbagetown” in the ’60s and ’70s — passion and fear, laughter, nightmares and dysphoria, preservation, degradation, dreams and pride … and it really happened. I was – am – there.

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Posted by on May 28th, 2011 at 08:00 am

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One Response to “Recommendation: Confessions of an Empty Purse”

  1. kendall
    June 13th, 2011 at 11:27 pm |

    my straight grandma and my straight brothers straight girlfriend both lived in cabbage town–I’m a queer boi and always meet crazy characters when I’m out that way.

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