Reviews - Your Body is Not Your Body

132 reviews for:

Your Body is Not Your Body

Alex Woodroe

4.08 AVERAGE

motherhorror's review against another edition

YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY edited by Alex Woodroe and Matt Blairstone
Release Date: May 2022
Genre: Mixed/Horror
Sub-genre/Themes: LGBTQIA2S+, Body horror, religious stuff, human monsters, home invasion, science-fiction, technology gone awry, medical experiments, sexual/psychological/emotional trauma, child abuse, transphobia, homophobia (specific triggers for individual stories in the back of the book)

A carefully and lovingly curated anthology celebrating identity and sexuality within the spectrum of horror. A portion of proceeds goes toward Equality Texas as a response to attempted criminalization of trans/GNC youth and their families in the state of Texas. I read this during #transrightsreadathon taking place during the week of March 17-27, 2023.

My favorite stories: (*****) = special mention/5 stars
The introduction by M. Belanger
(*****)The Flensing Lens by LC von Hessen
(*****)Tonsilstonespunksplatter666! by Rain Corbyn
High Maintenance by S. A. Chant
Brother Maternitas by Viktor Athelstan
The Same Thing That Happened to Sam by M, Lopes da Silva
(*****)Why We Keep Exploding by Hailey Piper
Because My Mother Tells Me So by Dayna Ingram
(*****)Fencing Chestplate by Avi Burton
The Simulacrum by Rhiannon Rasmussen
(*****)Stench by Vincent Endwell
Tiny Magic by G. E. Woods
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Please see my "real time" reading updates for review notes and pulled quotes.

unmorality's review against another edition

3.0

I'm gonna be nice because I appreciate that this anthology exists even though I found the majority of the stories pretty meh at best. I found them mostly self-conscious in an annoying way.

My two favorites were "High Maintenance" by S.A. Chant and "The Lives in Scavengers" by Rhiannon Rasmussen. The former had a neat fairy tale-sci-fi hybrid thing going on and the latter had interesting world-building and the best first person perspective in this whole anthology.

schmokelife's review

3.0

challenging dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

palegrey's review against another edition

5.0

There’s a visceral, exhilarating quality to this collection. The contents twitch and thump like vital organs, vivisected and tangled. They promise new tomorrows and terrors to go with them.

There are a few typos, a few instances where some of the works might have benefited from a second draft, but even in these flaws there is a sense of urgency, of raw creativity and authenticity that is too often missing from horror and its branching genres. These works weren’t written as an experiment in gross-out, mindless gore. They were written in both The grief and celebration of the unique identities of their creators in the trans and gender non-conforming community.

As David Cronenberg once said, “This is an artist giving their all to their art.”