A Body Made Home: They Black Trans Love

A lyrical memoir that incorporates gender, race, and trans theory in order to excavate a mythography of home, love, and life in transition.

"Home for the Black American has always required ingenuity and radical imagination. Home is commonly understood as a place of bodily safety, a place where one can find themselves a resting place, but for me and for many Black queer folk, our bodies most often preclude any home-making with those kinds of securities." It is this reality that spurred K. Marshall Green's investigation into love among bodies that have been discounted by the mainstream as emotionally deficient and defective.

In his powerful debut memoir, Green recounts the story of "Baby Girl" and of "Black Boi," the Black trans man she will later become. Invigorating this hybrid theoretical memoir with letter writing and biomythography--continuing in the literary tradition of Audre Lorde--Green explores the place of transition and reckons with the possibility of home as a Black queer person in America, unearthing deep transformation and freedom dreaming possibilities.

A memoir and mythography of a Black trans man's invention of self and home, through gender, race, and trans theory made personal

In a country built on the daily oppression and incarceration of Black people, on the rejection of queer and trans rights, how does a Black trans man become himself or find home? "Home is commonly understood as a place of bodily safety, a place where one can find themselves a resting place, but for me and for many Black queer folk, our bodies most often preclude any home-making with those kinds of securities." It is this reality that spurred K. Marshall Green's investigation into bodies--and the love between them--discounted by the mainstream as deviant, deficient, and defective.

In his powerful debut memoir, Green recounts his lifelong transition from "Baby Girl" to "Black Boi," his current and future self. Laced through his accounts of traversing discrimination, misunderstanding, and abuse from family, society, and academia are experiments in letter writing and biomythography, continuing in the literary tradition of Audre Lorde. Through A Body Made Home, Green explores the long, stuttering arc of transition and reckons with the possibility and fantasy of home as a Black queer person in America, unearthing the truth of transformation and recasting dreams of freedom.