You've probably never read a memoir like Fairest but that's all the more reason you should. “At a certain point, I just sort of felt like I should really talk about my story on my own terms,' 1demerith tells InStyle.
The book follows writer Meredith Talusan through her childhood in the Philippines , her adolescence in America, and the years she spent studying at Harvard, when she was known by a different name.
It’s the story of a gay man coming of age in the ‘90s, a transgender woman coming to terms with her truest self in the early aughts, and an albino Filipino person reckoning with the privilege of their perceived whiteness. “I have done a reasonable amount of personal essay writing, but it's usually writing that's been tied to a moment,” Talusan says. “At a certain point, I just sort of felt like I should really talk about my story on my own terms.
“For a long time, I was super obsessed with essentially acting like a white person because that's how I was perceived,” Talusan tells me. “And I got all of these privileges out of it. And over time I sort of realized how much A) that isolated me from my own communities, but also B) that it wasn't actually reflective of the complexities of my identity and my emotional makeup. And I feel the same way about being trans.
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