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Kaya Wilson

Kaya Wilson is a writer and tsunami scientist based in Australia. His non-fiction writing blends essay and memoir to explore universal themes of identity, gender and origin. He was the winner of the 2019 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, a runner-up in the 2019 Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award and was also shortlisted for Penguin Australia’s 2019 Write It Fellowship. As Beautiful as Any Other is his first book. Kaya is a knowledgeable advocate for transgender issues and speaks at events addressing queer inequity. He also performs as a storyteller.

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Title:: As Beautiful as Any Other
Written by:: Kaya Wilson
Read by:: Kaya Wilson
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 6
Duration:: 6 hours 29 minutes
Published:: June 01 2021
Available Date:: June 01 2021
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781867539391
Genres:: Non-fiction; Australian; Autobiography; Memoirs
Publisher:: Bolinda/Macmillan Australia

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As Beautiful As Any Other is a trailblazing debut of remarkable beauty, insight and candour.

Trans is not trauma, no more than surfing is trauma or life or families. Trauma is the mark left by the rocks hit or thrown. Our body responds, heals and grows with it. It does what it can to stop you from hitting the same rock again. When Kaya Wilson came out to his parents as transgender, a year after a near-death surfing accident and just weeks before his father's death, he was met with a startling family history of concealed queerness and shame. As Beautiful As Any Other weaves this legacy together with intimate examinations of the forces that have shaped Wilson's life, and his body – vulnerability and power, grief and trauma, science and narrative. In this powerful and lyrical memoir, Wilson makes a case for the strength we find when we confront the complexities of our identity with compassion.

'Transformative, sentimental, witty, and wonderfully authoritative.'
Amy Middleton, editor of Archer

'There is so much more to this book than meets the eye. Wilson is able to do that rare thing, fuse the personal with universal, the scientific with the emotional, without losing the impact of either. Instead, they are enhanced.'
Fiona McGregor