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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
Painfully relevant to any trans person
Over and over, Daniel found ways to phrase just so those little nagging feelings that go with being trans. A wonderful journey into the human psyche.
Over and over, Daniel found ways to phrase just so those little nagging feelings that go with being trans. A wonderful journey into the human psyche.
Occasionally rambling, often hilarious. It can be difficult to relate to the author's faith if you come at the book from a source that is not evangelical Christian, but the search and meaning of identity is easy to understand.
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Absolutely worth the pre-order, and very similar in style to his posts on shatnerchatner.com (which are hilarious and haunt me, especially “it’s 1961, here are your tight little male accessories”). Not every essay lands, but those that do are so funny and poignant and strange, and I’m convinced that Lavery and I are [Jenna Marbles voice] spiritually connected since our tastes align often and in the weirdest ways (Bill Shatner’s boyishness, oldass movies with T4T energy, the fact that he apparently thinks about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Anne of Green Gables as often as I do). I could read another three books like this.
I'm not sure I've read anything like this, ever, but it's Danny Lavery, so that's not suuuuper surprising.
I didn't expect to draw out my first reading of this for four days. I did not expect this to be one of the most seriously theological works about transness I've ever read. I did not expect to cry laughing or to cry in recognition but both of those things sure happened. I didn't expect to regret that I never read that used copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I bought in high school, nor did I expect to be glad that I read The Pilgrim's Progress at uni, but I do and I am. I didn't expect to emerge with a watch list a mile long including The Golden Girls and an episode of a 70s? procedural guest starring William Shatner as a serial killer but here we fucking are.
The only book I've ever read that I see this much of myself in is Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg z'l, so, that's something. Also that book made me was a never-tell-a-soul-or-they'll-know-too-much seeing, and this is a shout-it-from-the-rooftops-did-you-know-there-was-someone-else-like-me-in-the-world kind of seeing. I've already bought a copy for a friend and it's taking some effort to not buy more copies for people I know significantly less well. So. Take that as you will.
I didn't expect to draw out my first reading of this for four days. I did not expect this to be one of the most seriously theological works about transness I've ever read. I did not expect to cry laughing or to cry in recognition but both of those things sure happened. I didn't expect to regret that I never read that used copy of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I bought in high school, nor did I expect to be glad that I read The Pilgrim's Progress at uni, but I do and I am. I didn't expect to emerge with a watch list a mile long including The Golden Girls and an episode of a 70s? procedural guest starring William Shatner as a serial killer but here we fucking are.
The only book I've ever read that I see this much of myself in is Drag King Dreams by Leslie Feinberg z'l, so, that's something. Also that book made me was a never-tell-a-soul-or-they'll-know-too-much seeing, and this is a shout-it-from-the-rooftops-did-you-know-there-was-someone-else-like-me-in-the-world kind of seeing. I've already bought a copy for a friend and it's taking some effort to not buy more copies for people I know significantly less well. So. Take that as you will.
this book had me thoroughly bored for the majority of the time i was reading it. there were bits i did enjoy, but they were few and far between. i feel that i would have enjoyed it more at the beginning of my transition than i did now
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I was completely unfamiliar with this author's writing or background, so this essay collection was a pleasant surprise! There were essays about religion and pop culture and Star Trek and GOLDEN GIRLS (!!!), so there was something for everyone!
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