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338 reviews

The Dutch Approach: Fifty Years of Transgender Health Care at the VU Amsterdam Gender Clinic by Alex Bakker

4.5

ik had graag wat meer discussie over de groeiende kritiek rondom het diagnosticeren van genderdysforie gezien, maar als een historisch werk, is dit een onmisbare bron. ik heb alex bakker kunnen spreken bij een lezing, en kijk uit naar zijn volgende werken

Coup de Grâce by Sofia Ajram

2.0

meh. i really wanted to like this because i've read some of ajram's essays and those were good, but this did not hit 

De donkere kamer van Damokles by Willem Frederik Hermans

3.0

erg sterk, maar nooit meer slapen steekt er voor mij met kop en schouders bovenuit

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

really good but i felt like anything

post-suicide attempt

felt a bit rushed and unfinished

Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come by Leslie Feinberg

informative fast-paced

3.0

interesting more as a work from a moment in the then-emerging trans community and how they were looking at history, rather than a useful account of trans/non-conforming history

I love you forever is murder by amy etherington

dark emotional reflective

4.0

Hoe herken ik een fascist by Umberto Eco

2.5

niks mis mee voor wat het is maar ik haalde er ook niets nieuws uit

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

very few books have made me sob like this.

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter by Isabel Fall

5.0

On Violence by Hannah Arendt

reflective fast-paced

a classic hannah arendt text. that is to say, meticulously crafted, with some great insight  and considerations — in particular the parts on the inverse relation of power and violence —, some fascinating racism, an allergy to anything even approaching intersectionality. and of course, the eternal "source??".  

and yet, her writing (sometimes her questions more than her answers) fascinates. 

i put this as being "fast-paced" but my background is in political theory and also having read origin of totalitarianism this was a *breeze*