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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 All About Yves : Notes from a Transition
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'A timely and thought-provoking memoir about the trans experience.

'Rees provides us with their deep insights into contemporary trans and gender diverse history as it's being made . . . All About Yves is the book I wish I'd been able to give my mother when I was transitioning.' Sam Elkin, Transgender Victoria Board Member

'Was I always trans, part boy beneath my skin, or was it that I landed in a place where 'girl' was a container so small it could break your bones?

'I learn that a ready smile and sympathetic ear are the only props required to impersonate a woman. The performance becomes so familiar I almost forget that it's staged.

'What happens when, aged 30, you understand you're transgender?

'This was the question that confronted Yves Rees, a historian whose life was upended by gender transition in 2018. Then known as a woman called Anne, Yves was forced to grapple with the sudden knowledge that they were not, in fact, female at all.

'But when you've lived a lie for so long, how do you discover who you really are? And how do you re-learn to live in the world as a different gender?

'All About Yves tells their moving journey of re-becoming, at the same time laying bare the messiness of bodies, gender and identity. It shares the challenges and joys of being transgender in Australia today, and reveals how trans experiences like Yves' can teach all of us about what it means to be human.

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2021 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 2021
      ISBN: 9781760879310

Works about this Work

Notness Oliver Reeson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2022; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023;

— Review of All About Yves : Notes from a Transition Yves Rees , 2021 single work autobiography

'I saw this TikTok last year. It starts with someone, white, wearing a short-sleeved button-up shirt, leather-strapped watch, asymmetrical haircut, lip-syncing to recorded dialogue.'  (Introduction)

y separately published work icon At Home with Yves Rees Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2021 23448271 2021 single work podcast interview

'Dr Yves Rees is a Lecturer in History at La Trobe University and co-host of Archive Fever. Rees was awarded the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize for their essay Reading the Mess Backwards and All About Yves is their memoir and debut.

'Rees has a regular history segment on ABC Radio Melbourne and their writing has featured in the Sydney Review of BooksThe AgeArcher magazine, Guardian Australia, Overland, Meanjin, Junkee, Australian Book Review and The Conversation. Rees is trans and uses they/them pronouns. They are the co-founder of the Spilling the T transgender writing collective and volunteer with Transgender Victoria.' (Production introduction)

Living the Questions : Making Gender Legible Kate Crowcroft , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 437 2021; (p. 49)

— Review of All About Yves : Notes from a Transition Yves Rees , 2021 single work autobiography

'Yves Rees’s memoir All About Yves charts their experience of coming out as trans. The book documents the challenges of the transition in a colonial society built for and around the gender binary. Rees invites the reader into their everyday life. The point is to make their ‘gender legible in a world that refuses to see it’, and the author sets out from this premise.' (Introduction)

Living the Questions : Making Gender Legible Kate Crowcroft , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 437 2021; (p. 49)

— Review of All About Yves : Notes from a Transition Yves Rees , 2021 single work autobiography

'Yves Rees’s memoir All About Yves charts their experience of coming out as trans. The book documents the challenges of the transition in a colonial society built for and around the gender binary. Rees invites the reader into their everyday life. The point is to make their ‘gender legible in a world that refuses to see it’, and the author sets out from this premise.' (Introduction)

Notness Oliver Reeson , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , May 2022; Critic Swallows Book : Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books 2023;

— Review of All About Yves : Notes from a Transition Yves Rees , 2021 single work autobiography

'I saw this TikTok last year. It starts with someone, white, wearing a short-sleeved button-up shirt, leather-strapped watch, asymmetrical haircut, lip-syncing to recorded dialogue.'  (Introduction)

y separately published work icon At Home with Yves Rees Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2021 23448271 2021 single work podcast interview

'Dr Yves Rees is a Lecturer in History at La Trobe University and co-host of Archive Fever. Rees was awarded the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize for their essay Reading the Mess Backwards and All About Yves is their memoir and debut.

'Rees has a regular history segment on ABC Radio Melbourne and their writing has featured in the Sydney Review of BooksThe AgeArcher magazine, Guardian Australia, Overland, Meanjin, Junkee, Australian Book Review and The Conversation. Rees is trans and uses they/them pronouns. They are the co-founder of the Spilling the T transgender writing collective and volunteer with Transgender Victoria.' (Production introduction)

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