This collaborative book by artists Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon is based on their acclaimed 2012 live show and follows a multidisciplinary structure of illustrations, essays, and lyrics. Gender Failure explores growing up, in Rae’s case, “socialized as a girl in a Pentecostal family in Calgary,” or in Coyote’s case, as a butch kid in the Yukon. They write of “God Failure,” their inability to meet what society has demanded of them and how they’ve come to embrace the possibilities of gender failure.

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