A review by bashsbooks
Gender/Fucking by Florence Ashley

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Gender/Fucking is an incredible collection of essays. Ashley writes about sex, sexuality, gender, and the connections we make and break through them with a freshness that I've rarely seen. Their writing is full and vivid without being overwrought or cliché. And it isn't just their structural/word choices that are fantastic - their imagination flows into everything they write, sparking a flame within the reader that transports you into their world, which eases understanding for the difficult and fraught scenarios and questions that continuiously force their readers to grapple with. 

My favorite essays were: "The Cutting Table", "Vaginomancy", (must-reads regarding vulva-acquring bottom surgery), "Libidinal Vertigo", (fuck psychoanalysis!) and "Daydreams of an Apocalypse" (palliative activism is SUCH an important concept).

Could not recommend this book more. Will be reading more of Ashley's work in fhe future.
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