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Ivan Coyote

ABOUT

Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller who was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, and lives in Vancouver. Coyote is the author of ten books, has toured festivals and stages worldwide for nearly two decades, and plays the baritone saxophone. This piece will appear in Coyote’s eleventh book, Tomboy Survival Guide, due out from Arsenal Pulp Press in the fall of 2016.


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Ivan Coyote
Essays
If I Was a Girl

Femme girls get free Slurpees, but boyish ladies get free cavity searches at the border.

Ivan Coyote
Essays
Shouldn’t I Feel Pretty?

Somewhere in the sweat and ache and muscle I carved a new shape for myself that made more sense.

Ivan Coyote
Gender Failure

It didn’t feel like there was any possible way this could really be happening—nineteen years of binding my breasts, even more years trying not to hate them.

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Ivan Coyote
Demonstrating Affection

I learned most of what I know about being a man from my Uncle Rob. Uncle Rob has never let the fact that I was declared female at birth get in the way of our male bonding, and I’ve always loved him best for it.

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