“Shon Faye can break your heart and change your mind in the same moment.” Torrey Peters

Shon Faye’s experience as a trans woman growing up visibly queer exacerbated her fears that love was not for her. Love in Exile is a profoundly moving book of and for our times.

When Shon Faye confronted her long-held ideas about love and lovelessness, she realised this sense of exclusion is symptomatic of a larger problem. Consumer capitalism sells engrossing fantasies of becoming more loved or lovable. Boundaries are purposefully drawn to keep some in and others out. Wise, funny and unsparing, Love in Exile explores what it is to relate to men, masculinity, power, and gender norms as a woman and as a trans woman.

Author of the bestseller The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye’s work has been published in the Guardian, Independent, British Vogue and VICE. She writes an advice column, Dear Shon, for Vogue.com.

In conversation with Liadán Hynes.

Duration: 1 hour