Portable Homes

Name: Portable Homes
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780615925318

136 pages2013Lexie\BeanISBN 9780615925318

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About this book

Portable Homes is an anthology of letters collected from domestic violence survivors who wrote to one of their body parts, as they were told or forced to believe their bodies are not safe spaces; their bodies, their homes, became sites of reclamation. Uncensored, raw, and full of movement--this is a book filled with violence, healing, and people with body parts. Portable Homes is a project from Attention: People With Body Parts, which is a body-positive organization with an emphasis on letter and book making, movement, and collaborative projects.

Publication Details

Publisher: Lexie\Bean
Published: 2013
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9780615925318

About Unknown Author

Lexie Bean (they/he) is a white, nonbinary, trans, and neurodivergent artist whose work for the past 15 years has involved aiding fellow trans survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. They began their activism at a rape crisis hotline in rural Ohio, and have since published Written on the Body, an anthology of letters authored by survivors to their body parts of choice, and The Ship We Built, noted as the first middle-grade novel released by a major U.S. publisher centering a trans boy to be penned by one. Additionally, they have been interviewed by and written for Teen Vogue, Them, Kirkus Reviews, Autostraddle, and more, and serve on the leadership council for RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization. They are “passionate about creating honest and complex trans narratives through writing, performance, and film.” Currently Lexie is co-directing their first feature-length documentary, What Will I Become? —[Surviving Transphobia](https://www.survivingtransphobia.com/#about)