A review by helmagnusdottir
A Herstory of Transmasculine Identities: An Annotated Anthology by Michael Eric Brown, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Joe Ippolito

3.0

Some great stuff, but a lot of it was inconsistent. I think it's hard to write for other trans folks, but was still bummed by how many of these dudes opted for the most cliched language. Notable standouts were folks like Cooper, who are both writers, and men with a depth of understanding of their own lives, and their place inside spaces and communities. This book also seems to imagine (with a few exceptions) a world without trans women, except when it's quoting some of the famous trans women who have written about gender. It even goes so far as to incorrectly explain transmisogyny as something that can apply to trans guys too. Oh well. Not sure if I'd generally recommend this, but if you're a theory dork nonfiction writing transsexual like me, maybe it's interesting?