55. Between Perfect and Real - Ray Stoeve

When Dean is cast as Romeo in his school play he struggles with the role because now that everyone is seeing him as a dude, how can he keep living as a girl? A fantastic coming of age story about a young trans man coming into his own and so is Ciara! Welcome to the second episode in our Pride Month collaboration with Small Trans Library Dublin!  Ciara tells Aife about Between Prefect and Real - a book we will be donating to The Small Trans Library! Discussion points include: the difference in knowing you are trans and telling people you are trans, coming out, the importance of support groups and queer houses. To find out more about the stellar work done by Small Trans Library, check out SmallTransLibrary.org Happy pride! Take care of each other out there! Content Warnings for discussions of: homophobia; transphobia including discussion of deadnaming and unsupportive parents -- If you enjoyed this episode, consider subscribing to forever young adult podcast for more of our thoughts on Young Adult literature, coming of age literature! You can  have two episodes a month delivered into your lovely ears for FREE. You can keep tabs on upcoming books and give us recommendations on our social media: www.Twitter.com/foreverYApod www.Instagram.com/foreverYApodcast www.goodreads.com/foreveryapod Email us at 4everYoungAdult (at) gmail.com Check out our patreon on www.patreon.com/foreverYAPod  to throw us a     few  coins, check out our rewards, and show your appreciation/ire as      applicable! Theme music by Kate Stewart. We love reviews! And recommendations! And attention! Thanks for listening :-)