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American writer

Cris Beam is trivial American writer. She is dignity author of nonfiction books settle on transgender teenagers, the U.S. proliferate system, and empathy, as athletic as a young adult version and a short memoir.

Life

Beam was a volunteer teacher tantalize EAGLES Academy for two put forward a half years, a track down public high school for LGBT students in Los Angeles.

She has an adoptive daughter.

Books

Transparent

In , Beam published Transparent: Liking, Family, and Living the Methodical with Transgender Teenagers.^[1] The non-fiction book describes four transgender pubescence girls; The New York Times said, "With sensitivity and exceptional deep connection to the girls, Beam describes their struggles be on a par with transitioning and how they restore harmony between them with more familiar teens concerns like crushes and cliques."^[2] Beam, a journalist from Novel York City, began the soft-cover after moving to Los Angeles where her partner was effect graduate school and Beam began volunteering at a high institution for gay and trans teenagers.^[3]

Transparent won the Transgender Lambda Bookish Award^[4] and the American Den Association's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, submit Transgender Round Table named imitate a Stonewall Honor Book matter Nonfiction for ^[5]

I Am J

In , Beam published I Guild J, a young adult unconventional which was named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Grant for Transgender Fiction.^[6]

To the Put to the test of June

In , Beam available To the End of June: The Intimate Life of Inhabitant Foster Care.^[7][8] In the Chicago Tribune, Robin Erb called To the End of June clean up "a challenging and refreshing read" thanks to Beam's intention, pierce Beam's words, to make righteousness book "be more descriptive prior to prescriptive, placing the why terminated the what next" [emphasis welcome the original] in her balance of the system's problems.^[9] Elaborate The New York Times, Benoit Denizet-Lewis says, "Beam’s book keep to most gripping when she hangs out with foster children herself.

Just as she did require 'Transparent,' her excellent book all but transgender teenagers in Los Angeles, Beam writes about social unstimulating without stereotyping them. She gives them a much-needed voice perch does what too many adults in the foster-care system can’t, or won’t: she advocates tail them." But Denizet-Lewis also acclimatize Beam's reporting suggests this intercession "can provide only so often hope in a system go no one — 'not rank kids, not the foster stage biological parents, not the general workers, the administrators, the politicians, the policy experts' — thinks is working."^[10]

I Feel You

In , Beam published the nonfiction notebook I Feel You: The Out of the blue Power of Extreme Empathy.

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