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stevia333k's review
fast-paced
4.5
So this is a preview of "there are trans people here", so IDK how to rate these 2 books separately, but i will say the preview is way more dysphoric than the full-length.
so this full length one where a lot of the increase in hope seems to make a lot of ideas of a t4t city as imagery. i don't think i can say outloud an encounter i had while reading one of the poems in this book, but there was a connection made that made me think i need to recontextualize some things that i thought of during my life.
so while it's beautiful in the sense of black lives matter statue art replacing colonizer statue art, i guess my mind went to: whose going to police the gender to make sure everyone is trans in a certain space? practically, it can go wrong very quickly, as the book "abolition feminism now" warns against.
anyways, the author's from chicagoland so i probably can get less alienated from the context of this imagery.
so this full length one where a lot of the increase in hope seems to make a lot of ideas of a t4t city as imagery. i don't think i can say outloud an encounter i had while reading one of the poems in this book, but there was a connection made that made me think i need to recontextualize some things that i thought of during my life.
so while it's beautiful in the sense of black lives matter statue art replacing colonizer statue art, i guess my mind went to: whose going to police the gender to make sure everyone is trans in a certain space? practically, it can go wrong very quickly, as the book "abolition feminism now" warns against.
anyways, the author's from chicagoland so i probably can get less alienated from the context of this imagery.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Transphobia, Deadnaming, and Sexual violence
betsygrace's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Biphobia, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Homophobia, Hate crime, Transphobia, Ableism, Sexual content, Misogyny, Alcohol, and Acephobia/Arophobia
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