When Your Family Wants You To Be “All Boy”
I wanted to tell him that, if I could, I would give him my body to use however he saw fit. It meant nothing to me. If only bodies were like gloves you could peel off and lose.
A native of Mississippi, Nick White is the author of SWEET AND LOW and HOW TO SURVIVE A SUMMER. He teaches creative writing at Ohio State University.
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