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I Hate This About Me / Henry Alberto
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FA.B132.3092
111 pages with 1 tipped-in sticker ; 18 cm
2020
Masculinity, Gender identity
Softcover. Perfect bound. 2nd Edition of 200.
Set in Lustitana by Ana Paula Megda and Palanquin by Pria Ravichandran.
"I Hate This About Me is a modern-day book of affirmations interwoven with personal narratives and reflections of filmmaker Henry Alberto's grappling with the toxic masculinity innately imbedded in the Latinx community. As Alberto states in the book, "this book is a manifestation of something or someone" he wish he had growing up. In simple and understated passages the book speaks directly and specifically to boys, though each is sentence could apply to any and all gender identities. The use of the word boys is intended to remind us of the often-impossible emotional and behavioral demands we place upon boys and men alike. I Hate This About Me softens those expectations encouraging and affirming what's often perceived as weakness or undesirable should be embraced, and normalized. It raises the question of what does it really mean to be a man." --Be Oakley, quote found on George Mason library catalog, accessed 8/15/2023
Set in Lustitana by Ana Paula Megda and Palanquin by Pria Ravichandran.
"I Hate This About Me is a modern-day book of affirmations interwoven with personal narratives and reflections of filmmaker Henry Alberto's grappling with the toxic masculinity innately imbedded in the Latinx community. As Alberto states in the book, "this book is a manifestation of something or someone" he wish he had growing up. In simple and understated passages the book speaks directly and specifically to boys, though each is sentence could apply to any and all gender identities. The use of the word boys is intended to remind us of the often-impossible emotional and behavioral demands we place upon boys and men alike. I Hate This About Me softens those expectations encouraging and affirming what's often perceived as weakness or undesirable should be embraced, and normalized. It raises the question of what does it really mean to be a man." --Be Oakley, quote found on George Mason library catalog, accessed 8/15/2023