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sleepingnerd's review
4.0
Excellent essay pondering about monstrosity, queerness and what connects the two. I have a big fascination with horror stories, and this is a big reason why. After all, what we fear tell us much about ourselves and our culture, and the Other, the Transgressive, is often feared and, thus, turned into a monster. I don't feel like I understood everything, mostly because I'd need to study more, but this had a lot of great insights. Also, it's fitting that I read this in the waiting room for my doctor appointment to start HRT :)
nonsenselliot's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia
Minor: Suicide
chrxiao's review
5.0
kinda can't find the words — just deeply awed & respectful. this piece is powerful in the way that you become intensely aware of your heart beating. "monologue" particularly took me out. wish i had seen stryker's performance. horror is queer; transness is the ultimate queerness. learned a piece more of my queer history in the time period understanding of "transsexual" (which today we define as just the outdated term) v.s. "transgender."
votedmothman's review
5.0
If you have read Frankenstein, are trans, and/or have an interest in trans history + trans politics read this essay, it's fantastic.
alexbrhms's review
5.0
"The transsexual body is an unnatural body. It is the product of medical science. It is a technological construction. It is flesh torn apart and sewn together again in a shape that in which it was not born. In these circumstances, I find a deep affinity between myself as a transsexual woman and the monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Like the monster, I am too often perceived as less than fully human due to the means of my embodiment; like the monster's as well, my exclusion from human community fuels a deep and abiding rage in me that I, like the monster, direct against the conditions in which I must struggle to exist."
SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP SHOVELING DIRT INTO MY MOUTH EATING THE PAPER SOBBING YELLING RUNNING AROUND DOING CARTWHEELS BAWLING MY EYES OUT
SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP SHOVELING DIRT INTO MY MOUTH EATING THE PAPER SOBBING YELLING RUNNING AROUND DOING CARTWHEELS BAWLING MY EYES OUT