As her body gets in line with her mind, Juno tells not only her own story, but the story of everyone who is shaped by society’s expectations of gender – and what we can do about it.įeaturing insights from well-known gender, feminist and trans activists including Rebecca Root, Laura Bates, Gemma Cairney, Anthony Anaxagorou, Hannah Witton, Alaska Thunderfuck and many more, The Gender Games is a frank, witty and powerful manifesto for a world in which everyone can truly be themselves. From men who can’t cry to the women who think they shouldn’t. From exclusionist feminists to ‘alt-right’ young men. From little girls who think they can’t be doctors to teenagers who come to expect street harassment. Gender isn’t just screwing over trans people, it’s messing with everyone. And two years ago, as Juno Dawson went to tell her mother she was (and actually, always had been) a woman, she started to realise just how wrong we’ve been getting it. Before our names, before we have likes and dislikes – before we, or anyone else, has any idea who we are. ‘It’s a boy!’ or ‘It’s a girl!’ are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world. ‘Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice – I loved it!’ Rebecca Root, star of Boy Meets Girl A lifelong Doctor Who fan, she has also written The Good Doctor novel for the iconic science fiction franchise.*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017* 2017 saw the publication of Dawson’s first book for adults, The Gender Games, with her debut adult fantasy Her Majesty’s Royal Coven – about a top-secret government department of witches – following in 2022. Her Young Adult fiction output often features LGBTQ+ characters and many of her books have been nominated for awards, with Meat Market winning the 2020 YA Book Prize. In 2015, Dawson came out as a transgender woman, having begun transitioning eighteen months prior.
In 2014, This Book is Gay, Dawson’s groundbreaking ‘manual to all areas of life as an LGBT person’ caused a furore in the United States where it was banned from a school library in Alaska for its ‘profanity and sexually explicit text.’ In the same year, she became a School Role Model for Stonewall and was also a recipient of the Queen of Teen award. Whilst working as a teacher she penned a series of YA novels whose success enabled her to leave teaching to write full-time. Born in Bradford, Juno graduated from Bangor University and became a primary school teacher and PSHE co-ordinator.
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