Trans: Juliet Jacques with Chloe Aridjis
Tuesday 29 September 2015, 6 p.m. · 68 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/6/9/6/0/530696-11-eng-GB/55db24be8d0c2.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/6/9/6/0/530696-11-eng-GB/55db24be8d0c2.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/6/9/6/0/530696-11-eng-GB/55db24be8d0c2.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/6/9/6/0/530696-11-eng-GB/55db24be8d0c2.jpg 1200w)
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery—a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a Guardian column. Interweaving the personal with the political, Trans: A Memoir is a powerful exploration of debates that comprise trans politics in a world where, even in the liberal and feminist media, transgender identities go unacknowledged, misunderstood or worse. It is also a moving and involving portrait of an artist, tracing Jacques’s path to becoming a writer, via her explorations of film, music and art. With award-winning novelist and writer Chloe Aridjis, Jacques discussed the cruxes of writing and identity and the problems of performance and confessional writing.
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