I’m Afraid of Men Audiobook (Free)

Called a Best Book by: The Globe and Email, Indigo, Out Newspaper, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, Writers’ Trust of Canada, Autostraddle, Bitch, and BookRiot.

Finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Honor, Transgender Nonfiction

Nominated for the 2019 Forest of Reading Evergreen Honor

Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Culture Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose nonfiction

‘Cultural rocket gas.’ –Vanity Good

‘Psychological and about I’m Scared of Men painful but also layered with humour, I’m Scared of Males will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to accomplish better. This challenge is a required one–one we must all take up. It really is a gift to dive into Vivek’s center and mind.’ –Rupi Kaur, bestselling writer of The Sun and Her Bouquets and Milk and Honey

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a young man and is constantly on the haunt her as a girl–and how exactly we may reimagine gender for the twenty-first century.

Vivek Shraya has reason to be scared. Throughout her life she’s endured serves of cruelty and hostility for being too feminine as a boy and not feminine more than enough as a girl. To be able to survive years as a child, she had to learn to convincingly perform masculinity. As a grown-up, she makes daily compromises to steel herself against everything from verbal episodes to heartbreak.

Today, with raw integrity, Shraya delivers a significant record from the cumulative damage due to misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, liberating trauma from a body which has always refused to assimilate. I’m Afraid of Men can be a trip from camouflage to a riot of colour and a blueprint for how exactly we might cherish all which makes us different and conquer all that makes us scared.