Gender Magic

Name: Gender Magic
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781472148308
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Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, and Step into Your Most Authentic Self

By Rae McDaniel

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Drawing on over a decade of experience with the queer and trans community, licensed therapist Rae McDaniel presents the Gender Freedom Model, a nine-pillar approach to exploring and embracing gender through play, pleasure and freedom. Gender Magic offers practical guidance for transgender, nonbinary, cisgender and questioning individuals to move from fear and self-doubt to confidence and joy, cultivate self-love, design fulfilling relationships and align their gender expression with their authentic self. This compassionate and celebratory book invites readers to step beyond gender binaries and discover their unique magic.
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This book is ideal for anyone interested in gender exploration, including transgender, nonbinary, cisgender individuals and allies seeking a compassionate and practical guide to experiencing gender beyond traditional binaries.

A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity and pleasure for transgender and non-binary individuals, gender explorers and those who love them - perfect for readers of The Body is Not an Apology and Pleasure Activism.

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Rae McDaniel is a leader in their generation, matching compassion with clear-sighted vision for a sex-positive future - Emily Nagoski, PhD, author of Come As You Are and Burnout.

Taking everything they know from more than a decade of working with the queer and trans community, their personal journey of gender exploration, and clinical best practices, licensed therapist, coach and speaker Rae McDaniel created the Gender Freedom Model. A uniquely supportive narrative for gender exploration and transition grounded in queer joy, their nine-pillar model has helped thousands of transgender and nonbinary individuals explore gender through play, pleasure, and freedom. And now, it can help you too.

Whether you're transgender, non-binary, cisgender or still exploring, this compassionate and practical guide will help you experience your gender in new, expansive ways by teaching:

How to move from anxiety, self-doubt, and fear to a confident, proactive state of mind.
How to navigate discomfort and celebrate your inherent worth as you develop genuine self-love.
How to design relationships, community, and a sex life that lights you up.
Practical tools to align your gender identity and expression with your most authentic self through play, pleasure, and possibility.

Brimming with warmth, celebration, and practical advice, Gender Magic is essential reading for anyone who yearns to step into their fullest self and imagine a life beyond gender binaries. Because you — yes YOU — are magic.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Emily Nagoski, PhD, author of Come As You Are, praises Rae McDaniel as a generation leader combining compassion and clear sex-positive vision. Carol Queen, PhD, co-founder of the Center for Sex & Culture, highlights the book's blend of research, clinical insight and lived experience as a powerful tool to debunk toxic narratives and unlock gender euphoria. Lidia Yuknavich, acclaimed author, calls it a cutting-edge triumph that offers new ways to understand gender and can potentially save lives. Together, these reviews affirm the book's warmth, practicality and transformative potential.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472148308

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Robinson

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 370g

Pages: 304

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction Rae McDaniel Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Rae McDaniel is a non-binary therapist, certified sex therapist, coach and transgender diversity and inclusion educator. They are founder and CEO of Practical Audacity, a gender & sex therapy practice in Chicago and an international speaker on gender freedom. As an expert in sexuality and gender exploration, they have been featured in places such as The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Time, Women's Health, Well+Good, Refinery 29, Bustle, Elite Daily, Entrepreneur and The Independent. Rae holds degrees from DePaul University, University of Michigan, and is certified by AASECT. They live in Chicago with their dog Gizmo, who might actually be a gremlin.