Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age. A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood-and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?

ISBN: 9780994047137
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Publisher: Metonymy Press
Published: November 15, 2016

“The first lie is that this book is a memoir, the second is that it is not. This is something new, a gorgeous genre breaker, weaving prose, poetry, life lived and dreamt—an incantatory and yes fabulous ode to trans girls of colour, and if you read it right, a DIY instruction manual for changing your sex and the world, a fairy tale for brown girl revolutionaries, sex workers, lovers.” —Trish Salah, author of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1