A review by nixiethepixie
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

Listened as an audiobook read by the author. Happy to have finally made my way through this collection, as I’ve hoped to for a while. Tolentino is a clear, sharp and playful voice who has lived through periods of transition and change in the face of the internet. Always come back to the internet, gender, feminism and institutional and societal structures - we are reminded of the way systems intertwine and structures are built to progress and protect themselves, and the continual presence of an unseen audience. Tolentino continually comes back to women throughout history to now, and how to exist within this present day - reminding us that liberation is often mistaken as evil as it occurs.