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2000s: What is life like as a gender-box-defying adult?
Tomboy Survival Guide
What you need to know before your trail
The Tomboy Survival Guide is all about the pleasures and difficulties of growing up as a tomboy in Canada’s Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don’t fit neatly into boxes or identities or labels.
There are many firsts for them: the first time they were mistaken for a boy; the first time they purposely discarded their bikini top so they could join the boys at the local swimming pool; and the first time they were chastised for using the women’s bathroom. What is life like as a gender-box-defying adult?
For tomboys in training, a helpful guide is also included
Travel Guide
What must it be like to grow up in the Yukon – anywhere in fact – but certainly in a fairly remote part of Canada as ‘different’ . The Tomboy Survival Guide paints a picture of Coyote’s childhood in the Yukon, what a queer identity actually means and and the ongoing struggles of living outside the gender ‘norm’
Ottawa Xpress once said that “Coyote is to Canadian literature what KD lang is to country music: a beautifully odd fixture.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass Information: Tomboy Survival Guide
Author/Guide: Ivan Coyote Destination: Yukon territory Departure Time: 2000s
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