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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
6 reviews
saturn_rage's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Hate crime, Slavery, Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Murder, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Transphobia
rorikae's review against another edition
4.25
This book is very much a historical text. I would definitely recommend gong into this book knowing that it is an academic text and can be quite dense due to use of academic language. I think this would be a good book to read alongside a book that deals with the current lived experiences of Black trans individuals as it provides a lot of important context. If you are interested in the concepts that it tackles I would definitely recommend it. Just go in knowing that it is both a hard and important read that is going to take time to digest and fully process.
Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexual violence, Transphobia, Grief, Murder, Slavery, Police brutality, Violence, and Hate crime
therainbowshelf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content, Sexism, Slavery, Medical trauma, Transphobia, Torture, Misogyny, and Racism
blackcatkai's review against another edition
4.0
if you have interest in this topic or a wish to be more informed, I highly recommend.
Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Colonisation, Ableism, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Classism
Moderate: Death, Slavery, Hate crime, and Sexism
stevia333k's review against another edition
4.0
Anyways there's also 2 parts that were helpful too:
1. the racist enslavement origins of gynecology helped explain why that field gets very cissexist & pro-natal & anti-choice (as well as why white women buy into rationalization & conservativism)
2. Discussion of comparing enslavement-to-freedom narratives with gender transition narratives.
The book pointed out why Foucault is unreliable. The book uses language similar to Jacques Donzelot's "The Policing Of Families" that was an awkward contradiction. I will say this book hammered it into my head that enslaved black women were used as wet nurses for white kids. Considering Donzelot's book traces the school to prison pipeline back to regulating wet nurses in the ancien regime, this means the systems have major differences (for example, Donzelot's book really only mentions race once when describing an exceptional defense given for an Algerian kid).
So overall the book was good, though some parts such as the "boys don't cry" movie review felt like literature class reports. This book
Graphic: Slavery, Rape, Hate crime, Murder, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Medical trauma, Outing, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Transphobia
mmcloe's review against another edition
Graphic: Transphobia, Homophobia, Sexual violence, Racial slurs, Hate crime, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Ableism, Rape, Medical trauma, and Misogyny