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Carrie Kills A Man: A Memoir

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Touching on topics from coming out to trans parenthood, fashion disasters and pop culture icons, Carrie’s memoir is both frank and funny. Crying tears of joy kind of funny but also ridiculously relatable tales of everyday mishaps kind of funny. Carrie Kills A Man, CKAM for short, is my first memoir and was published by the brilliant 404 Ink in November 2022. Carrie explores growing up trans and coming out later in life, showing the real impact of anti-trans rhetoric, both historic and current. You’ve written a number of books before in differing forms – how did you find writing your own story?

The way that Carrie explores and discusses rejecting privilege and power was another real highlight for me and a great example of the power of listening to own voice stories and not allowing the narrative to come from the media. Because if you do, then the Carries of the future, their families and their friends will understand that being trans offers possibility and pleasure, not pain or punishment. I think being Scottish means I’m just naturally drawn to that – we Scots are brilliant at mining comedy from pretty dark seams sometimes, and we’ll tell the most horrendously embarrassing stories to make our friends laugh. It's amazing to see how the impacts of social media and the Internet have changed so negatively too.It’s been really interesting and a little bit strange, especially with some of the more difficult memories: you’re taking things that used to cause you great shame and sometimes pain and putting them out there for others to see and potentially judge you for. Things feel really dark right now, but there’s a huge generational shift happening and it’s really beautiful to see. By the end I felt such joy and pride for Carrie (though I don’t know her, her words paint her life so vividly) tinged with such anger, frustration and sadness about the hostility trans people face in the world but especially the UK.

I think this recognition is really powerful as it really highlights that how we feel can evolve as our environment changes and as our knowledge about something increases.If you’re looking for a book that cuts through all the noise and takes you on a journey that explores the very personal realities of being transgender in Scotland and the UK but also discusses the social commentary and history in a way that feels really open and accessible then this is the book for you.

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