I Have Always Been Me by Precious Brady-Davis

Parenthood is an experience the Brady Davises have always wanted to share, but their road to pregnancy was not always an easy one.

We just looked at each other and cried and then we kissed each other.” Becoming Parents Precious Brady Davis added: “We just kind of sank to our knees holding this test as we saw positive. “When we both found out that we were pregnant we were actually on our living room floor and we cried together.” “This has been a two-year journey for us,” Myles Brady Davis told Block Club Chicago. But they always had the support of their friends, family members and community members. Myles is the director of communications at Equality Illinois Precious works at the Sierra Club but has worked at the Center on Halsted in the past.Īchieving their dream family has been difficult at times as they’ve feared for Myles’ safety as a pregnant transmasculine person and needed to use in vitro fertilization, which meant months of hoping for a pregnancy only to get negative results.

Precious is a trans woman and Myles is transmasculine.īoth have been outspoken advocates for LGBTQ people and people of color. The queer power couple announced their pregnancy on Instagram and in a statement to The Advocate, a magazine focused on queer communities. Myles is 17 weeks pregnant and is due this winter. She speaks to anyone who has ever tried to find their place in this world and imparts the wisdom that comes with surmounting odds and celebrating on the other side.Ī memoir, a love story, and an outreach for the marginalized, Precious's sojourn is a song of self-reliance and pride and an invitation to join in the chorus.CHICAGO - Precious and Myles Brady Davis are a lot of things: activists, writers, speakers. She reveals her determination to dream through it and shares her profound journey as a trans woman now fully actualized, absolutely confident, and precious. In I Have Always Been Me, Brady-Davis reflects on a childhood of neglect, instability, and abandonment. Yet she realized by coming into her identity that she had a purpose all along. As a biracial, gender-nonconforming kid, she felt displaced. Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and grappling with 'otherness.' Born into traumatic circumstances, Davis was brought up in the Omaha foster care system and the Pentecostal faith. A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis.

I Have Always Been Me by Precious Brady-Davis