Rhyannon Styles is a journalist, performance artist and musician. Her ground-breaking Elle column, 'The New Girl', charts her journey from male to female, where she bares all about her experience of transitioning. In her colourful life as a performer, career highlights include a show at the Guggenheim Museum NYC, dancing with Kylie Minogue on ITV and rollerskating naked at the Barbican art gallery. A star of the transgender community, Rhyannon was name-checked on Independent's Rainbow List as 'One to Watch'. Get up close and personal with Rhyannon online: Elle column: www.elleuk.com/tags/rhyannon-styles Website: www.rhyannonstyles.com Twitter: @rhyannonstyles Instagram: @rhyannon_styles YouTube: /RStyles
I watched Rhyannon Styles begin as the most inspiring and heart-wrenching cocoon I ever saw and now she is a glorious butterfly -- Paloma Faith Love Rhyannon. Love this book. Everything you've ever wondered about transition, cocooned in an epic tale of fleeing suburbia and big city fabulousness -- Grace Dent I loved this book - Rhyannon doesn't just shine a light on this subject, she sets off a bloody fireworks display -- Cherry Healey I am changed for having read this - congratulations, Rhyannon, on a bold life that inspires and lifts - the world needed this truth -- Laura Jane Williams, author and blogger A story that will make you smile and sob in equal measure, and challenge everything you thought you knew about gender, sex, and fashion. Once read, never forgotten -- Rebecca Root A wonderful asset to our community -- Caroline Tula, Trans icon, model and Bond girl Proud to be holding this book ... The best and worst of times in a wonderful memoir -- Lorraine Candy, Sunday Times Rhyannon is such a great ambassador for the trans community. She writes with such class while also keeping it super real. I've got a book coming out later this year and all I'm saying is I'm glad my book isn't a memoir, because I'd hate to have to compete with this -- Charlie Craggs Rhyannon Styles journey of transition is fraught with the unique issues of her generation. Honest and unflinching, she walks the tightrope of uncertainty with confidence in the unknowing. A modern Artemis in the queer wilderness, midwifing her own becoming -- Penny Arcade