Zachary Pace

"Structured like a mixtape, this debut essay collection juxtaposes Pace's lifelong questions about gender and sexuality with the music that influenced them along the way. They recount how listening to themselves sing along as a child to a Disney theme song--recorded on a boom box in 1995--was when they first heard the effeminate inflection in their voice. Alongside memories of a fractured childhood friendship, Pace discusses the relationship between...