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4.23 AVERAGE
4.23 AVERAGE
I think every trans person and ally of trans people should read this book. I had a lot of conflicting feelings going through this book and it challenged what even I thought as a trans person about some trans issues. I think it does a great job on highlighting diverse voices from the trans community. If you have any interest in the topic of what it means to be transgender, then I think you should read this book.
Excellent read that provides insight into the lives of multiple transgender people. Many topics in this book are things I would not have considered being a cisgender person. This book was eye opening and made me really feel for these members of society whose voices typically are not heard or sought out.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Also seduced me from the new non-fiction section of the library.
I'd been reading some radical feminism critiques of transgender issues online lately that were pissing me off, but also made me realize how little of my gender and orientation reading was about trans-identities, compared to LGB, or especially I. I'd applied a lot of what I'd learned reading about intersex conditions/identities to transgender issues, but how well did that really fit?
Enter Schultz's timely oral history collection. The diversity of voices collected here is really admirable, and was exactly what I was looking for. There are a lot of celebrity transfolk (especially MTW) biographies grabbing press today, but that reality is just such a small fragment of the spectrum of experience.
I especially appreciated and got woke by the sections on intersectionality, on how trans-identity is affected by race, gender, disability, medical issues, culture, class, etc.
I wanted to find all of these people and hug them.
A very useful and important book. Very difficult to put down.
I'd been reading some radical feminism critiques of transgender issues online lately that were pissing me off, but also made me realize how little of my gender and orientation reading was about trans-identities, compared to LGB, or especially I. I'd applied a lot of what I'd learned reading about intersex conditions/identities to transgender issues, but how well did that really fit?
Enter Schultz's timely oral history collection. The diversity of voices collected here is really admirable, and was exactly what I was looking for. There are a lot of celebrity transfolk (especially MTW) biographies grabbing press today, but that reality is just such a small fragment of the spectrum of experience.
I especially appreciated and got woke by the sections on intersectionality, on how trans-identity is affected by race, gender, disability, medical issues, culture, class, etc.
I wanted to find all of these people and hug them.
A very useful and important book. Very difficult to put down.
emotional
informative
medium-paced
The author describes cultural, historical, and sociological information about the trans* community while also sharing the background and experiences of 34 trans* people. Ignorance breeds fear and this book does a great job of using personal narratives to educate.
This is basically an oral history of trans people in the US, and what's nice is that the author interviewed a whole bunch of people with a whole bunch of different identities (like trans men, trans women, all kinds of different nonbinary folks) from a whole bunch of backgrounds (various ages, races, class backgrounds, education levels).