{"product_id":"9781487011130","title":"Valid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA genre-bending speculative look at a dark future, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e shares the story of one trans woman leading a revolution.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a mutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIf our mutiny is to succeed, I must name things well, without diversion. Lacking this, you will not deviate from your certainties.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHere it is: I am trans.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs in transgression. I have broken genres. I have removed myself from the rules. \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI am trans.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs in translation. I have dragged the elements that make up my person from one state to another. My geometry is variable.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnd tonight, I am a revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\/warning: code red… fetch-query protocol enabled… transmission failed… standby\/\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSet in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, \u003cem\u003eValid\u003c\/em\u003e is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris Bergeron (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":43066805780547,"sku":"9781487011130","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3523\/2323\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c4c55da0-a525-4b1d-87d7-64eb0da4e9ab.jpg?v=1774443566","url":"https:\/\/thebookshop613.ca\/products\/9781487011130","provider":"The Bookshop 613","version":"1.0","type":"link"}