Vivek Shraya has reason to be afraid of men. It all started when, as a child, she was mistreated because she wasn’t boy enough; it continued when, as an adult, she was punished for not being woman enough, or simply because she was one. For Shraya, there is no escape, only survival strategies, from the forced performance of virility in her previous life to the daily constraints imposed on her today by her life as a trans woman, the target of all cruelties, humiliations, and disregard. In frank and moving writing, she delivers a lucid testimony on the thread that connects toxic masculinity, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia.

I'm Afraid of Men , published by Penguin Random House in 2018, was named Best Book by The Globe and Mail, Bitch Magazine , Indigo, Audible, CBC, Apple, the Writers' Trust of Canada and the Brooklyn Public Library.