Shon Faye: “We treat romantic love very politically”
Ahead of the release of her memoir ‘Love in Exile’, Shon Faye talks T4T relationships, the universality of heartbreak, and her hopes for her male readers.
WORDS VIC PARSONS IMAGES SOPHIE DAVIDSON When Shon Faye’s debut book, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice, was published in September 2021, it blew fresh air into a public discourse about transgender people that had become increasingly stale, repetitive and toxic.
The book was an instant Sunday Times bestseller, won awards, and was read by Faye onstage at Glastonbury festival, to an adoring crowd.
Now, she’s back. Faye’s hotly anticipated new book Love in Exile promises to upend our notions about romantic love, examining the political and economic forces that push us to compromise ourselves in pursuit of idealised yet unrealistic relationships.
