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tututitsleoute's review against another edition
4.0
envie de faire un câlin à ce livre, how lucky we are que Minnie Bruce Pratt et Mirza-Helène Deneuve aient voulu que le monde ait tous ces mots et toutes ces histoires
ragingfemme's review
5.0
as a femme lesbian, this book felt like I was actually learning about the ones before me and how much love our community can bring, how similar our relationships to gender are, our warm loving butches can be, thank you minnie bruce pratt, we miss you dearly.
femalewysteria's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
the infinite compassion and desire of a femme for a butch, for all the people found in solidarity with… a love letter to resistance, lust and eroticism as power. a story that makes me proud to be a femme almost 30 years after it’s publication. i hope the butches + femmes that read this are reminded of the core of this struggle and remember the book’s ending sentiment: “We are the obscure stones at whose shift the walls will crack from bottom to top, dirt to wind, so that all can be built again for all. If the lowest stones move, those who scrape and sell even the sky will crash down in a scatter of glittering rock.”
Content Warnings
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault
amaldae's review
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
Beautifully written - almost too beautifully, a true poet's memoir. Also clearly formative for many and courageously, defiantly personal and joyous without compromising on realism.
juicywizard's review
5.0
such a beautiful exploration of gender and sexuality! so much tenderness for butches and those who love them—i want to memorize every line
jugglingpup's review
5.0
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I have been looking forward to reading this book since the first time I picked up Stone Butch Blues years ago. I wanted to know more and more about Pratt and Feinberg. This memoir gave me the insight I wanted on the seemingly hidden Pratt (she was only hidden because I didn’t know how to use the internet effectively when I first found out about her).
The book is written in a way that is easy to read and follow, while still being captivating. It was not as good as Bone Black, but it was in the same vein which I greatly appreciated. This book took me on an adventure that I was a willing participant in. There was some information from the author’s early life, but thankfully I had just read her book Crime Against Nature so I could get a more in-depth depiction of the time when she started to openly love women.
The book tells of a few partners, but never really names them. It makes it feel like Pratt is keeping them private because they are something she cherishes, not because she doesn’t want to tell us about them. It made the love she has for these women seem even stronger. I love how conflicted she seems when she first starts to date Feinberg and how it was never an issue of could there be love. Instead the issue was how do I explain this love without losing my identity as a lesbian. This was a large step forward in my mind when it comes to depiction of transgender people.
This book was one I wanted to read everyday and was one I gladly read everyday. I would have to force myself to go to bed or to go back to work instead of sitting down and reading it all in one go. This is a book I would gladly give out to people and will read again if the chance ever arises.
I have been looking forward to reading this book since the first time I picked up Stone Butch Blues years ago. I wanted to know more and more about Pratt and Feinberg. This memoir gave me the insight I wanted on the seemingly hidden Pratt (she was only hidden because I didn’t know how to use the internet effectively when I first found out about her).
The book is written in a way that is easy to read and follow, while still being captivating. It was not as good as Bone Black, but it was in the same vein which I greatly appreciated. This book took me on an adventure that I was a willing participant in. There was some information from the author’s early life, but thankfully I had just read her book Crime Against Nature so I could get a more in-depth depiction of the time when she started to openly love women.
The book tells of a few partners, but never really names them. It makes it feel like Pratt is keeping them private because they are something she cherishes, not because she doesn’t want to tell us about them. It made the love she has for these women seem even stronger. I love how conflicted she seems when she first starts to date Feinberg and how it was never an issue of could there be love. Instead the issue was how do I explain this love without losing my identity as a lesbian. This was a large step forward in my mind when it comes to depiction of transgender people.
This book was one I wanted to read everyday and was one I gladly read everyday. I would have to force myself to go to bed or to go back to work instead of sitting down and reading it all in one go. This is a book I would gladly give out to people and will read again if the chance ever arises.
megatsunami's review
4.0
Beautiful book, gorgeous writing (more like prose poems than a narrative memoir), very sexy, interesting meditations on gender roles and sexuality. Took me a long time to read as I really enjoyed it while reading, but didn't feel much drive to pick it up in between times, since there wasn't much of a narrative arc.