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rosarachel's review against another edition
4.0
Very interesting, if a tad superficial and rushed toward the end.
theinfophile's review against another edition
review is forthcoming. this one requires extra thoughtfulness.
metafiktion's review
3.0
I liked that this was an autobiographical, mostly chronological collection of stories and thoughts that have shaped Hardy’s identities rather than a theoretical construction of what “girlfag” means; admittedly, being only passably familiar with her name before this, I was on guard in case it turned out to be a story by a poly, kinky, but still cishet woman trying to ~queer~ her life (it’s not). I was struck by how little I related to Hardy, a “female-bodied person who loves and identifies with gay men,” even as many of our experiences and experiments (e.g. with female masculinity) are adjacent to each other. This is testament to the boundless possibilities under the banner of “queer” as well as the power of a well-written memoir to bring you into a world that is not your own.
catship_system's review
4.0
Look. I'm not fine with categorizing bodies into "male" and "female" without the consent of their owners, as happens in this book, or with calling people men or women based on what their bodies look like, or with rhethorical questions about what someone's gender "really" is just to demonstrate how arbitrary gender assignment is.
But. I still really really enjoyed reading this book and I'm very glad that it exists. It's fun, and sad, and relatable, and not-relatable-at-all, and it talks about all those things about sexuality, the ones that are not straightforward. The ones that I relate to, even though I am much younger, my life is much more boring, and my approach to sex quite different.
It's not a theoretical piece on girlfags, but a collection of anecdotes from a genderqueer girlfag's life, and that is both great and a bit confusing. Confusing, because I don't very much feel like I just read something about the topic that the title implies at all. Great, because instead of another stuffy attempt at capturing the essence of what makes a girlfag, this book upens up loads of subjects that are related to it all for this particular girlfag, and might be for others, or might not.
Yeah I like this book.
But. I still really really enjoyed reading this book and I'm very glad that it exists. It's fun, and sad, and relatable, and not-relatable-at-all, and it talks about all those things about sexuality, the ones that are not straightforward. The ones that I relate to, even though I am much younger, my life is much more boring, and my approach to sex quite different.
It's not a theoretical piece on girlfags, but a collection of anecdotes from a genderqueer girlfag's life, and that is both great and a bit confusing. Confusing, because I don't very much feel like I just read something about the topic that the title implies at all. Great, because instead of another stuffy attempt at capturing the essence of what makes a girlfag, this book upens up loads of subjects that are related to it all for this particular girlfag, and might be for others, or might not.
Yeah I like this book.
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