![]() Ivan talks about Rosie and how she lived, and died. In “Listing My Sisters”, Ivan talks about honoring trans folks who have died and their stories. In “God Failure”, Rae remembers growing up in the Pentecostal church and rejecting the gendered teachings, as well as realizing they may be gay. In “Rosie”, Ivan talks about meeting a trans-woman named Rosie who becomes a close friend. ![]() In the second “Girl Failure”, Rae also talks about junior high and running away from girls doing a dance in gym class. Part 2 includes the chapters: “Girl Failure,” “Girl Failure,” “Rosie,” “God Failure,” “Listing My Sisters,” and “Cowboy." In the first “Girl Failure,” Ivan talks about their junior high friend Janine and how they had overheard Janine gossiping about their genitalia. Rae explains that since childhood they have failed at gender and have decided to retire from it altogether. Ivan explains how they, both Ivan and Rae use the pronoun “they,” first worked with Rae and explains that they have had top surgery. Part 1 includes two chapters titled “Introduction” from first Ivan’s perspective then Rae’s. For the purposes of this guide, the chapters are broken into seven parts that include several chapters in each. ![]() ![]() Ivan has the odd chapters and Rae the even chapters. Gender Failure is 36 chapters long, each chapter told from either Ivan or Rae’s first-person perspective. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Coyote, Ivan E. ![]()
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