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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
awesome premise but the actual plot and characters were pretty weak. it felt very rushed :(
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
There were some lines I thought were brilliant. I only wish it were more fleshed out and Lexi feels so similar to Reese from Detransition, Baby that I'm not exactly sure how I feel about it.
This novella is a brilliantly creative “fuck you” to the moral panic that trans people will bring about the collapse of society. Peters elegantly responds by imagining, “so what if we did?” I only wish it was longer so I could spend more time with it.
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“But we have to understand each other well to be so cruel. Most of the cruelty I've experienced has been inadvertant, the kind that comes from getting trampled so often that inevitablely someone steps somewhere sensitive.”
“I sometimes think about my regret in the same way as I think about my closeted years. They are nothing alike, except for my desperate need to speak their truth, and my total inability to do so.”
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“But we have to understand each other well to be so cruel. Most of the cruelty I've experienced has been inadvertant, the kind that comes from getting trampled so often that inevitablely someone steps somewhere sensitive.”
“I sometimes think about my regret in the same way as I think about my closeted years. They are nothing alike, except for my desperate need to speak their truth, and my total inability to do so.”
Torrey Peters seems to love her fellow trans women but not like them very much at all. Really gives a window into her contempt/love for trans community drama.
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The narrative is incredibly hostile towards trans men, and I would've preferred if she'd left trans men out entirely instead of committing macro and microaggression after aggression.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Transphobia
Moderate: Rape
This was like if Manhunt had a prequel but instead of cis people causing a hormonal contagion it’s trans people. The classic but excellent storyline of figuring out how to navigate complex relationships with oneself and others and how gender identity plays a role in them. Super short read (and free on the internet), so if you are looking for something intriguing but not too long I would recommend it.
t4t babey!!! love the politics of trans care and ethics that torrey peters espouses.
forwards a kind of essentialism vis-a-vis hormones though, even in a world you can essentially build-a-bear your gender. very daring in reconceptualising contagion and trans possibilities, but still hopelessly binary (none of the postdiluvians venture outside of established binary genders, or venture to abolish gender altogether). wish the book would further explore trans identities decoupled from medical transition and hormones (maybe in a full length novel), but an imaginative vignette nevertheless, that reframes what is construed as a cis apocalypse of medical precarity as an everyday trans reality.
forwards a kind of essentialism vis-a-vis hormones though, even in a world you can essentially build-a-bear your gender. very daring in reconceptualising contagion and trans possibilities, but still hopelessly binary (none of the postdiluvians venture outside of established binary genders, or venture to abolish gender altogether). wish the book would further explore trans identities decoupled from medical transition and hormones (maybe in a full length novel), but an imaginative vignette nevertheless, that reframes what is construed as a cis apocalypse of medical precarity as an everyday trans reality.
adventurous
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated