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Trans Care by Hil Malatino

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readwithrhys's review against another edition

I think I'll read this another time. I started this so long ago that I don't even really remember what I've read. The writing is also in such an academic style that it's a little hard to understand for me.

honeydewqueer's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

lloergan's review against another edition

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fast-paced

3.0

pink_distro's review against another edition

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medium-paced

4.0

this book was good, it starts a lot of good conversations and lines of questioning. i particularly appreciated the loving discussion & analysis of burnout, social media, crowdfunding, "voluntary gender work," and the history of trans ppl's medical advocacy. also the section on the impossibility of measuring care (and thus, quantitatively "equally" dividing care labor) kinda blew my mind.

sometimes this book would get to something super interesting and then move on to the next thing so soon ... maybe that's part of the essay form tho ... guess i gotta think for myself 🙄

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5.0

“Misgendering when done by a cis person, might be a small misstep made in the course of a day - unfortunate, perhaps, but really no big deal. Misgendering, when it happens to a trans person, is equally routine, but the felt impact couldn’t be more disparate. Because when it happens to us, we are being told, as Eva Hayward so powerfully puts it, “don’t exist”. Being told we don’t exist - despite all obvious indicators that we, in fact, do - operates as an attack on beingness. This form of attack slips too easily into a justification for harm; it is a way of marking trans populations as subhuman - thus expendable, disposable, dismissible, even killable"

Read this for GWS and loved it. It is so short and sweet. I love the idea of trans care and having a community. This book just felt like a hug.
Long live trans joy, trans love.