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Rather than presenting identity as a fixed category, the work allows people simply to appear as they are, reflecting a generation moving beyond rigid identity structures and embracing fluidity, experimentation, and chosen forms of belonging. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcross the book, Glazzard’s own transition unfolds alongside the shifting lives of the people around him, forming part of a wider portrait of a shared world. At the heart of the book is a desire to build an archive of the present, documenting a circle of lives often absent from official histories. Conceived as a stapled, screen-printed publication much like Glazzard’s self-published zines, the book presents this material with the directness of a record. 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