Tomboy Survival Guide

• Tomboy Survival Guide is on the Canada Reads 2018 longlist

Tomboy Survival Guideis a funny and moving memoir told in stories, in which Coyote recounts the pleasures and difficulties of growing up a tomboy in Canada's Yukon, and how they learned to embrace their tomboy past while carving out a space for those of us who don't fit neatly into labels.

• Ivan Coyote memoir reflects on not living in a gender 'box'

The book warmly recounts Coyote's adventures and mishaps as a diffident yet free-spirited tomboy, and maps their journey through treacherous gender landscapes and a maze of labels that don't quite stick, to a place of self-acceptance and an authentic and personal strength.(From Arsenal Pulp Press)

• How does Ivan Coyote start writing? By making a list and cleaning their house

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Author interviews

The Next Chapter39:10TNC Special - Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon

Shelagh's extended conversation with Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon, authors of "Gender Failure".

On The Coast9:16Ivan Coyote memoir reflects on not living in a gender 'box'

I had a gender identity, it just didnt fit into a gender box, author said. I never really had words for things, but I never really identified as a girl, either.

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