{"product_id":"the-natural-mother-of-the-child-a-memoir-of-nonbinary-parenthood-hardcover","title":"The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKrys Malcolm Belc\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKrys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood--conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson--eventually clarified his gender identity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKrys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified his gender identity. And yet, when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Belc as \"the natural mother of the child.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By considering how the experiences contained under the umbrella of \"motherhood\" don't fully align with Belc's own experience, \u003ci\u003e The Natural Mother of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e journeys both toward and through common perceptions of what it means to have a body and how that body can influence the perception of a family. With this visual memoir in essays, Belc has created a new kind of life record, one that engages directly with the documentation often thought to constitute a record of one's life--childhood photos, birth certificates--and addresses his deep ambivalence about the \"before\" and \"after\" so prevalent in trans stories, which feels apart from his own experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Natural Mother of the Child\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a person moving past societal expectations to take control of his own narrative, with prose that delights in the intimate dailiness of family life and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into parenting.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKRYS MALCOLM BELC's\u003c\/b\u003e work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Black Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere, and has been supported by the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Belc lives in Philadelphia with his partner and their three young children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699462180927,"sku":"9781640094383","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1018bef74048be445624543f718f04fc.webp?v=1765013524","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-natural-mother-of-the-child-a-memoir-of-nonbinary-parenthood-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}