The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood
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Author
Contributors
Belc, Krys Malcolm Author, Narrator
Published
Dreamscape Media , 2021.
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Description
Krys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood—conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson—eventually clarified his gender identity.Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as “the natural mother of the child.” By considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of “motherhood” don’t fully align with Belc’s own experience, The Natural Mother of the Child journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays, Belc has created a new kind of life record, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one’s life—childhood photos, birth certificates—and addresses his deep ambivalence about the “before” and “after” so prevalent in trans stories, which feels apart from his own experience. The Natural Mother of the Child is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative, with prose that delights in the intimate dailiness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.
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Format
eAudiobook
Edition
Unabridged
Street Date
06/15/2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781666532333
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Belc, K. M. (2021). The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Unabridged). Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Belc, Krys Malcolm. 2021. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood. Dreamscape Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Belc, Krys Malcolm. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood Dreamscape Media, 2021.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Belc, K. M. (2021). The natural mother of the child: a memoir of nonbinary parenthood. Unabridged Dreamscape Media.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Belc, Krys Malcolm. The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood Unabridged, Dreamscape Media, 2021.
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