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Reviews tagging 'Medical content'
Black on both sides: a racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton
4 reviews
saturn_rage's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Hate crime, Slavery, Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Rape, Murder, Sexism, Racism, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Trafficking, and Transphobia
erebus53's review against another edition
3.5
It's interesting, but not accessible, though it might be an interesting take for someone who is used to the jargon that this type of writing is steeped in
(can I get a point for every time the author uses the one of the terms - quotidian, temporal, epistemologically, or teleological... no? well the book gets my occasionally awarded accolade for LEGIT LITERATURE - for successfully using the word Palimpsest in a sentence).
((which actually scares the crap out of me because I know there are still people to this day(!!) who feel that way. °eww°))
I see counterpoint with the idea that in modern trans narratives,
transition is seen as performative gender confirmation.. thus Honesty.
Given that there is often a lot to lose for a person who does not embrace the cis-het binary there is conflict between those who interpret transition as an authentic expression of self, and those who see it as a performative biological lie. (Only one of these value systems hurts anyone... *glare*)
For enslaved persons, disguise was a thing.. it could be used as a physical escape tactic, or as an internal escape in unliveable situations.
In fact I notice in old-timey crime novels, disguise was a thing.. in a way it's just not in modern stories.
Now it's got me thinking about the... anonymity of city life, and digital surveillance...
Also had me thinking about the idea of making powerful people feel safe.. and the act of Drag;
That so long as you are Obviously male _affecting_ Femaleness as an act for the benefit of cis-het audiences then you aren't seen as _as_
{weird, dangerous, subversive, dishonest, tricksy, A Trap, devious}
as someone who is outed while attempting to "pass" as the gender they were not assigned at birth.
I am coming to grips with the vocabulary and jargon of all this.. though.. it seems that they use the term Fungible, in the same way as I would use things like faceless, interchangeable, stereotypical..
seeing a person of a different type as just their race/status/job.
(Now I'm reminded of a quote from an heiress in an Agatha Christie novel who said "nobody looks at a chauffer like they would look at a _person_")
I noticed the use of the the term "Watts Rebellion" which is a powerful reframe of the White narrative of the Race Riots in Los Angeles in 1965 (and if this is new to me I have clearly not been engaging with this sort of academic analysis of systemic oppression as much as I should).
And the assumptions made about race and gender by those around us.
It's worth mentioning that the CW are a must read is you are likely to be upset by accounts of brutality, injustice and sexual anatomy.
This is not a book that most people will want to read without first coming armed with an academic reason for engaging with the discourse, or a mighty fine dictionary/thesaurus. Much of the writing will be difficult to understand for the casual reader. I found it challenging in times to make sense of some things, or to find relevance in things that drew some flimsy links between ideas.
Graphic: Rape, Racism, Transphobia, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Body shaming, Ableism, Murder, Suicide, Outing, Hate crime, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Gun violence, Classism, Blood, and Alcoholism
therainbowshelf's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Medical content, Sexism, Slavery, Medical trauma, Transphobia, Torture, Misogyny, and Racism
blackcatkai's review against another edition
4.0
if you have interest in this topic or a wish to be more informed, I highly recommend.
Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Colonisation, Ableism, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Classism
Moderate: Death, Slavery, Hate crime, and Sexism