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A review by argyledinosaur
Skirting Gender: Life and Lessons of a Cross Dresser by Vera Wylde
5.0
First I would like to say that there were numerous typos, but I'm going to overlook that because this isn't a book written by someone that had the backing of a huge editing team or publisher or anything like that. It was self published, and frankly, the typos weren't terribly distracting. Having said that, let's move on. Also, I'll be referring to the author as Vera, because that's the persona, I guess, that wrote it and published it, and I'll be using feminine pronouns when needed.
I heard about this book through one of Nathaniel's videos and I ordered it literally as soon as it was announced. I paused the video to order this book. I got the book a few days later and I have been reading it since. It's so hard to put down because I love hearing about other people's stories. A large part of why I was so intrigued is because I am gender-fluid, and I love learning more about how other people experience it. The first time I saw Nathaniel take his cap off I was literally mind blown like "holy cow I identify with this."
This book covers so many topics, a lot of which I don't really have any experience with because I'm a biosex female, so I don't have to "tuck" or contour to appear more feminine. But there's also a lot in this book that I can identify with, especially when it comes to Vera talking about exploring her gender expression. There's a nifty section of the book that gives definitions for different terms used in the book, which I found helpful, even though I already had a pretty good idea what most of the terms meant.
The part of the book that I found the most interesting, personally, was the section on personal experiences, because as I've said, I find people's stories to be vastly interesting. The section that went over some philosophical aspects of cross dressing was also very intriguing, and while I did enjoy the section about practical advice for how to cross dress, it obviously didn't have a lot that I could identify with, which is totally fine and didn't take away from my enjoyment of it.
If I'm being completely honest here, I'm biased. That's it. I am gender fluid and I really don't get a lot of representation anywhere, but here I have a book that was written by a gender fluid person, where she talks about her experiences and practical advice and philosophical aspects and it's something that I'm just really happy exists. I love this book, and it's one of my favorites that I own simply because of what it is.
I heard about this book through one of Nathaniel's videos and I ordered it literally as soon as it was announced. I paused the video to order this book. I got the book a few days later and I have been reading it since. It's so hard to put down because I love hearing about other people's stories. A large part of why I was so intrigued is because I am gender-fluid, and I love learning more about how other people experience it. The first time I saw Nathaniel take his cap off I was literally mind blown like "holy cow I identify with this."
This book covers so many topics, a lot of which I don't really have any experience with because I'm a biosex female, so I don't have to "tuck" or contour to appear more feminine. But there's also a lot in this book that I can identify with, especially when it comes to Vera talking about exploring her gender expression. There's a nifty section of the book that gives definitions for different terms used in the book, which I found helpful, even though I already had a pretty good idea what most of the terms meant.
The part of the book that I found the most interesting, personally, was the section on personal experiences, because as I've said, I find people's stories to be vastly interesting. The section that went over some philosophical aspects of cross dressing was also very intriguing, and while I did enjoy the section about practical advice for how to cross dress, it obviously didn't have a lot that I could identify with, which is totally fine and didn't take away from my enjoyment of it.
If I'm being completely honest here, I'm biased. That's it. I am gender fluid and I really don't get a lot of representation anywhere, but here I have a book that was written by a gender fluid person, where she talks about her experiences and practical advice and philosophical aspects and it's something that I'm just really happy exists. I love this book, and it's one of my favorites that I own simply because of what it is.