Zackary Drucker

@zackarydrucker

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Activism, Art & Design, Movies & TV
Syracuse, United States

Zackary Drucker is an American trans woman multimedia artist, LGBT activist, actress, and television producer. She is a consultant on the TV series Transparent and is based out of Los Angeles.

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Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust
Viktor E. Frankl | 2004 | Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
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"Viktor Frankl was a disciple of Freud. He was a psychoanalyst who, after surviving a death camp in the Holocaust, wrote this deeply spiritual book that is simultaneously psychoanalytic and autobiographical. This is a book about the power of the mind creating a reason to live in order to survive a dire situation. There is no more powerful a story than one about survival."

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"I think of this book as a secret key to understanding the division between stealth “passing” trans women and out trans women in our current culture. Quicksand is about a woman with a mixed background who escapes the racial injustice of America to Denmark in the 1920s. The thing that I’ve always thought was so curious was that Larsen published these books and then became a nurse, never to publish again. Larsen’s life is a mysterious allegory to her writing."

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My Mother: Demonology
My Mother: Demonology
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"Kathy Acker was a punk-rock, post-modern writer-artist and she wrote this piece after her mother died. The title says all there is to know about her feelings towards her mother. Acker’s writing coalesces to its most epic as she reinvents, bends, and destroys language, to build a world that is a complete psychological immersion and creative experience. Her books are a gift to humanity."

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A Queer and Pleasant Danger
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
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"Kate Bornstein addresses parts of her personal story that she had previously never talked about, including her childhood, her path to and escape from Scientology, and into a life of gender and sexual freedom. It is like having a spontaneous and often outrageous conversation with your dear old auntie who’s into S&M and radical gender play. "

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Zackary Drucker recommended Another Country in Books (curated)

 
Another Country
Another Country
James Baldwin, Colm Toibin | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
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"Baldwin’s grand novel, Another Country, delivers beatnik-era 1950s, with characters who are on all sides of black, white, gay and straight, twisting complex lives into a magical taffy of perfection. By humanizing the bourgeoning civil rights movement and changing attitudes towards women, Baldwin creates a historical portrait of America that is a great key to understanding where we come from."

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Zackary Drucker recommended Not Me in Books (curated)

 
Not Me
Not Me
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"Though I love ALL of Eileen Myles’ books, Not Me was the first that I got my hands on as a young person and it’s the one that I’ve read over and over again through the years. Myles’s poetry is a river of words and beauty that a reader can float downstream, easy and profound and lyrical to read under your breath, making all of the ordinary moments we experience in life more complex and packed with meaning."

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The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Dorothy Parker
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"The way that Dorothy Parker navigates her own darkness with wit, and her commentary on what it was like to be a woman in America in the 1920s is wildly compelling. The amazing thing about this book is you can open to any page and read a great short story. Parker makes for a wonderful author to read aloud to your lover."

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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
David Wojnarowicz, Olivia Laing | 2017 | Art, Photography & Fashion
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"This stage of his work is from a place of desperation and an itching demand to speak out about living with HIV/AIDS, and trying to survive a hopeless situation. Wojnarowicz’s words are resurrected cries of help from recent memory that are more relevant than ever."

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