Reviews - Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag

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Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag

A. K. Summers

3.67 AVERAGE

caedocyon's review against another edition

4.0

As a maybe someday pregnant butch I loved everything about this. I'm going to have to read it a few more times, slower, before I can comment on it thoughtfully. I'm so glad it exists.

kailawil's review against another edition

3.0

3.5 stars. Mixed feelings about this one but overall I liked it.

mariahbuns's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

rachael_perry's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

I am not butch or a lesbian, but I am pregnant and enjoy reading about other pregnant people and they’re pregnancies. Teek’s experience was nothing like either of my experiences, however, as someone who had prenatal depression my first time and terrible anxiety this time, and have a feeling that she may have experienced at least one of those, probably from dealing with identity issues and insecurities on top of the normal pregnancy fears. For that reason, I would have liked to see a bit about how Teek’s postpartum experience was handled. It’s a personal experience to share, so I understand why she didn’t include it, but the page about how no one cares about you after the baby is born smacked me in the face so hard (that’s how I felt after my first and had PPD/PPA in part because of it), and then there was no follow up about whether or not that was her experience. After also including the panel about seeing a gun in a mystery and knowing there will later be a murder, it felt weird not to include such an important part of the birthing experience. It is, after all, commonly termed “the fourth trimester.” But my Kindle edition stopped at page 63 (the end of the epilogue), and jumped to page 121 for works cited, so I don’t know if I missed anything.