Jackson is currently the host of the daily podcast Cool Stuff Ride Home and is a new member of the theater ensemble the New York Neo-Futurists. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vulture, The Advocate, and more. A YouTube NextUp Creator, TED Speaker, and GLAAD Rising Star Digital Innovator, Jackson shares his and others’ stories on his YouTube channel, jackisnotabird, and in his debut book Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place. Jackson Bird is a multi-disciplined creator who writes and performs original works on the stage, on the page, and online. If you haven’t already read the book, you can pick up a copy in the Multicultural Center at your convenience while supplies last. We hope to see you at this awesome event. Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir).Join Students Beyond the Binary on Friday, April 7th from 4 – 5:30 pm in the Multicultural Center for an evening with Jackson Bird! Jackson Bird will be reading an excerpt from his book ‘sorted’ and afterward will be answering questions. YouTuber Bird draws on “over five dozen physical journals” and “hundreds more digital diaries” in this frothy memoir of his journey as a trans man. An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how.
Originally conceived as a zine, the book retains such arty touches as hand-lettered pages, small black-and-white photos, and screenshots. Bird opens with a glossary of transgender terminology before recounting his experiences growing up in Michigan, Texas, and New Mexico having a pregnancy scare in college binding his chest (“Looking in the mirror and seeing my flat chest felt so innately right that it would flood me with a rush of endorphins”) coming out to his mother picking his male name and undergoing reconstructive chest surgery.
This jokey, brighter-side account will appeal to younger readers bogged down by the doom-and-gloom heaviness that can cloud the trans experience.īird admits to suffering “cringe attacks” when reading his old diaries, and readers may similarly recoil from the occasionally overwrought prose: “Words flowed with a raw mellifluence unlike any I’d experienced before.” But Bird’s sense of humor and lightness of touch elsewhere-as when he likens the assigning of gender identity to the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter books-help to offset such pretentiousness.
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