Gender Failure Summary
Coyote, Ivan

Gender Failure Overview

Rae Spoon and Ivan Coyote’s young adult autobiographical book Gender Failure is based on a show the two developed and performed. Told from each person’s perspective, Gender Failure explores their lives as Canadian transgender performers and their attempts to assume various identities as they grow into adulthood and beyond. Gender Failure explores the themes of sexism, acceptance, and the physical body.