Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who documented her transition in her viral "Days of Girlhood" TikTok series, announced her debut book Wednesday.
The book, titled “Paper Doll: Notes From a Late Bloomer,” is a collection of journal entries from the first year of her transition covering topics that Mulvaney, who has 9.4 million followers on TikTok, couldn’t talk about on social media, she said in a video announcement. It also includes essays “following some of the messier moments,” including when she tried ayahuasca, a South American plant-based psychedelic, and “being kissed as a girl for the first time.”
“But more than anything, it is about how I rediscovered trans joy after extreme pain,” Mulvaney, 27, said.
“Paper Doll” will be released March 11.
Last year, Mulvaney shot to national attention after a partnership promoting Bud Light's March Madness contest became a culture war flashpoint. The ad prompted boycotts among conservatives, including celebrities such as Kid Rock, who shared a video of himself shooting at cases of Bud Light with what appeared to be a semiautomatic rifle.
Mulvaney stayed relatively quiet in the ensuing controversy and didn’t share her first public statement about it until June 2023, when she said in a TikTok video that she was waiting for the brand to reach out to her, “but they never did.” It's unclear whether she'll address the scandal in the book.
“For months now, I’ve been scared to leave my house, I have been ridiculed in public, I’ve been followed, and I have felt a loneliness that I wouldn’t wish on anyone,” Mulvaney said at the time. “For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse, in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all, because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want.”
She added that supporting or hiring trans people “shouldn’t be political” or relegated to Pride Month, calling on her followers to donate to the Transgender Law Center.
Mulvaney has since released her debut single, “Days of Girlhood,” along with a music video.
