Juliet Jacques Trans A Memoir

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Throughout her memoir, Jacques interweaves the narrative with powerful explorations of many of the major debates surrounding trans: the uses of life writing, the relationship with feminism, and the before and after images that illustrated so many articles and documentaries. An extraordinary memoir of transition and transgender politics and culture“Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation.” In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national. In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics.

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“Six weeks before sex reassignment surgery (SRS), I am obliged to stop taking my hormones. I suddenly feel very differently about my forthcoming operation.”
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics.
Fresh from university, eager to escape a dead-end job, she launches a career as a writer in a publishing culture dominated by London cliques and still figuring out the impact of the Internet. She navigates the treacherous waters of a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. Yet through art, film, music, politics and football, Jacques starts to become the person she had only imagined, and begins the process of transition. Interweaving the personal with the political, her memoir is a powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics, issues which promise to redefine our understanding of what it means to be alive.
Revealing, honest, humorous, and self-deprecating, Trans includes an epilogue with Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?, in which Jacques and Heti discuss the cruxes of writing and identity.

Juliet Jacques (born 3 October 1981) is a British journalist, critic and writer of short fiction, known for her work on the transgender experience, including her transition as a trans woman.^[1]

She is co-editor of Resonance FM art discussion show Suite 212.^[2] She appeared on two episodes of the Media Democracy podcast, talking about how the UK media have treated trans and non-binary people over the last decade.^[3]

Education[edit]

Jacques was born in Redhill, Surrey and grew up in nearby Horley. She attended Reigate Grammar School for two years before her parents moved her to a local comprehensive school,^[4] followed by the College of Richard Collyer in Horsham, West Sussex, studying History at the University of Manchester and then Literature and Film at the University of Sussex.

Writing[edit]

In 2007, she published a book on English avant-garde author Rayner Heppenstall for Dalkey Archive Press.

Her memoir, entitled Trans, was published by Verso Books in 2015. This book emerged from a series Jacques wrote for the Guardian newspaper (2010 - 2012).^[5] She has written regular columns for The Guardian^[6] on gender identity, for the New Statesman^[7] on literature, film, art and football, and published extensively on film in Filmwaves, Vertigo and Cineaste. She began writing a chronicle of her gender reassignment in 2010. She contributed a section in Sheila Heti's book, 'Women in Clothes' which was published in 2014.

In 2021 Juliet published the debut short story collection Variations for Influx Press.^[8]

Awards[edit]

She was longlisted for The Orwell Prize in 2011 for her series on gender reassignment.^[9] In 2012 she was selected as one of The Independent on Sunday Pink List's most influential journalists,^[10] and was also included in the 2013 list.^[11] In 2016 the book Trans was short-listed for the Polari First Book Prize Award.^[12]^[13]