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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton
3 reviews
blackcatkai's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
a book full of extremely useful & important information about the history of black & trans bodies. clearly very well researched and presented. it does read very dry/textbook-like which can make it hard to read straight through as a non-scholar, but knowing that going in helps. I, personally, took breaks while reading.
if you have interest in this topic or a wish to be more informed, I highly recommend.
if you have interest in this topic or a wish to be more informed, I highly recommend.
Content Warnings
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
informative
inspiring
4.0
I didn't really understand this book that well. However, there was a part at around 75% where they were analyzing news reports on trans people & the popularity of those reports alongside era typical transphobia, and that was helpful (especially since I saw a lawyer TikTok talk about the difference between Jorgensen's coverage & today's coverage & it was like boo bitch)
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
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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery, Rape, Hate crime, Murder, Colonisation, Deadnaming, Medical trauma, Outing, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Transphobia
caidyn's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.5
Definitely an academic book that you can't just casually read. I think that my favorite chapter was on the various black transpeople and their lives. That's what I expected from this book.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Transphobia, and Colonisation
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