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riotsquirrrl's review against another edition
3.0
Biggest note for potential readers: contains the trans t-slur
This collection feels dated and it's only from 8 years ago. The language used by the contributors is considered tacky and passé now: natal, genetic girl, female-bodied. It's a graveyard of dead terms, retired to be replaced by more neutral terms like cis.
This collection is like a who's who of trans life at the time, especially trans life in Brooklyn, in San Francisco, and other big cities.
Buried under that are so many different stories, takes, experiences on being loved, accepted, alienated, frustrated, exploited. The best stories are about creating connections and family, especially with one another. Many others are examples of how trans people are the foil, the mirror, the catalyst that disrupts stable cis identities. Especially around the intimate, the sexual, the way bodies tug us in ways we'd rather not go but are compelled to go anyway.
I'm not sure that I would recommend this to someone newly out as trans. I'm sure there are better works out there now. But to me it represents how completely far things have come, and how some things are still the same.
This collection feels dated and it's only from 8 years ago. The language used by the contributors is considered tacky and passé now: natal, genetic girl, female-bodied. It's a graveyard of dead terms, retired to be replaced by more neutral terms like cis.
This collection is like a who's who of trans life at the time, especially trans life in Brooklyn, in San Francisco, and other big cities.
Buried under that are so many different stories, takes, experiences on being loved, accepted, alienated, frustrated, exploited. The best stories are about creating connections and family, especially with one another. Many others are examples of how trans people are the foil, the mirror, the catalyst that disrupts stable cis identities. Especially around the intimate, the sexual, the way bodies tug us in ways we'd rather not go but are compelled to go anyway.
I'm not sure that I would recommend this to someone newly out as trans. I'm sure there are better works out there now. But to me it represents how completely far things have come, and how some things are still the same.
dwyn's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
scrubjayspeaks's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0