Lucy Sante has been writing books since the 1980s, exploring everything from photography to urban history. In a new memoir, she shares her story of transition from male to female at 67 years old. "I am lucky to have survived my own repression," Sante says. "I think a lot of people in my position have not." The book is titled I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition. Also, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new Apple TV+ series Constellation. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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I sometimes get into arguments with people where they will say to me, but it can't be singular.
And I will say, but it is.
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I'm Tanya Mosley.
Who am I?
Is a question writer.
Lucy Sont has been asking herself for the better part of her life.
As she writes in a new book titled I heard her call my name, a memoir of transition.
Saunt describes how she found herself in the unlikeliest of places in 2021 through a gender swapping feature on Faceapp, which allowed her to turn pictures of herself as a man into a woman.
Throughout her life.
She says changing genders was a strange and electric idea that lived somewhere in the recesses of her mind for the better part of 60, Lucy Sont, who was assigned male at birth, is known for her incisive criticism and cultural commentary for the New York Review of Books.
She's also written nine books that explore subcultures and urban history, including low life lures and snares of old New York evidence, a collection of rarely seen New York Police Department evidence photographs taken in the 19 hundreds and the other Paris, a look at the french capital's underbelly.
Saunt recently retired from Bard College, where she had been a visiting professor of photography and writing for over two decades.
Lucy Sont, welcome to fresh aiR.
Thank you, Tonya.
Glad to be here.
Can I have you take us to February of 2021 when you wrote to around 30 of your closest friends in an email with a subject line that read a bombshell.