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challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
CO/NOTATIONS makes so many excellent points about transmedicalist bullshit, bodily autonomy, and so many other things like the expectations literary circles have for deviant people.
Cavar’s refusal to simplify their identity was so important and awesome to me. Not every trans person has the same origin story. Cavar’s experiences not only prove that they also reveal how deep some parts of society’s obsession with gender and sex go. As well as how that harms us.
This is an important exploration of discussions about nonbinary existence, queerness, womanhood, and bodily autonomy. Cavar’s footnotes are essential for that because it shows the exploration is ongoing in a way.
While I was reading this chapbook, I kept sending quotes from it to a bunch of my queer friends. I’m a trans man, so although I do not know what it feels like to be nonbinary I’m always excited to listen to people who are. I’ve witnessed the struggles all of the nonbinary people in my life have gone through in our heavily gendered world. Especially how so many are treated as Diet Gendered ™, often transmasculine when that’s not what they are.
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