She told them she was looking for a group of diverse youth, both in terms of how they experience gender but also race, socioeconomic status and other areas. She hunted around and found the Callen-Lord Community Health Center in New York, a clinic that supports transgender youth and their families, and invited them to collaborate. “It parents want to learn how transgender teens feel, they should learn it from the kids’ point of view,” she says. Susan wanted to create a book that would give voice to the youth. Her recent book, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, is a series of photographs and personal essays, mostly told in the first person, about each teenager’s experience being transgender. “That got me thinking more and more about the fluidity of gender, enough to make me want to know more,” Susan says. Susan’s cousin told her about a transgender friend who explained that for her, it wasn’t the gender that counted, it was the person. But it was only recently that she first started thinking about a group that is still marginalized, both in North America and around the world. Susan Kuklin, author of Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, talks about putting together this eye-opening book.Īmerican author Susan Kuklin comes from a long line of social activists and has written about human rights throughout her career.
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