You Only Live Twice : Sex, Death and Transition
You Only Live Twice : Sex, Death and Transition
by Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1552453316 | 153 Pages | PDF | 2.7 MB
by Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1552453316 | 153 Pages | PDF | 2.7 MB
YOLT explores two artists' lives before and after transitions: from female-to-male, and from near-dead to alive.
The unspoken promise was that in our second life we would become the question to every answer, jumping across borders until they finally dissolve. Man and woman. Queer and straight.
What if it's not true that you only live once? In this genre-transcending book, trans writer and media artist Chase Joynt and HIV-positive movie artist Mike Hoolboom come together over the films of Chris Marker to exchange transition tales, confessional missives that map out the particularities of occupying what they call ‘second lives’: Chase’s transition from female to male and Mike’s near-death from AIDS.
Weaving cultural theory with memoir and media analysis, YOLT asks intimate questions about what it might mean to find love and hope through conversation across generations.