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Join us as writer Oliver Radclyffe launches his new memoir, FRIGHTEN THE HORSES, with authors Kate Bornstein and Hugh Ryan. Oliver Radclyffe is part of the new wave of transgender writers unafraid to address the complex nuances of transition, examining the places where gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class, and family history overlap. Roxane Gay picked this as the first nonfiction book she’s publishing under her new imprint with Grove Atlantic.

In his new memoir, Radclyffe shares a trans man’s coming of age story, about a housewife who comes out as a lesbian and tentatively, at first, steps into the world of queerness. From the outside, Oliver Radclyffe spent four decades living an immensely privileged, beautifully composed life. As the daughter of two well-to-do British parents and the wife of a handsome, successful man from an equally privileged family, Oliver played the parts expected of him. But beneath the shiny veneer, he was desperately trying to stay afloat as he struggled to maintain a facade of normalcy. With growing courage and the support of his newfound community, Oliver is finally able to face the question of his gender identity and become the man he is supposed to be. 

Radclyffe's work has appeared in The New York Times and Electric Literature, he recently published Adult Human Male, a monograph with Unbound Edition Press about the trans experience under the cisgender gaze, and his memoir, Frighten the Horses, is due out with Roxane Gay Books in September. He currently lives on the Connecticut coast, where he is raising his four children.

Hive Mind Books is proud to be the official bookseller for this event, which takes place at Housing Works Bookstore.