A review by alainajreads
I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

4.25

This was a short but impactful part-memoir, part-examination of how misogyny and patriarchy impacted the author, Vivek Shraya, in her earlier years as a boy and after she came out as a trans woman. The jump from first to second-person POV in the section where Shraya recounts her experiences with men was an unusual choice and on audio the anecdotes flowed together so it took me some time to realize she wasn’t just describing the same man in different paragraphs. But overall, this made me think and left me with much to consider about the intersection of femininity, transness, and racialized identity and my own idea of a “good man” and relationship with gender. In fact, I wished it were longer!