pickI feel like I should own this book just so I can hand it to people whenever I get stuck in certain conversations.
Usually when reading works of this type I take notes, evaluating how I'm feeling about the information presented, how useful I think it is as a resource. This time I honestly got carried away by the writing. 1/?
Always down for a tree metaphor 🌳☺️
And I LOVE “gender-expansive“ as a term.
Questioning! 👏🏻 Rigid gender norms
Challenging! 👏🏻 Rigid gender norms
Benefits people of all genders!
1) Thursday was a holiday and I slept soooo much. Secco clearly was confused 😁
2) Watching @VaniBarelyReads playing Pokémon and playing it again myself
3) Felix Ever After gave me queer joy 🌈🏳️⚧️
4) Could cross off the first square of my Summer Bingo ☀️
5) Customers at our shop and working there 📚
#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii
pickWow, this book! It just blew me away. Felix felt so real, even when I wasn't reading the book he was there with me. More than once I had to close the book, because my emotions run wild. Kacen states that this a very personal book, and it shows. On each page. It also shows how much pressure there is on young people. We olf folk tend to smile at what teenagers have to go through, forgetting how it feels to have the whole world on your shoulders.
pickThis was a challenging book of poetry written in a mix of middle english and text speak. This allowed for some interesting word play that I found fascinating. There is a lot to this, and it would be interesting to read with a group. I'm sure the style won't be for everyone, but if you're up for the challenge, it's worth it.
pickI don't read a lot of poetry, and I won't pretend that I understood everything in this collection. But I really appreciated the way these poems were written and the glimpses you get of the author's struggles with being indigenous & trans, internally & interpersonally, and growing up in foster care. It also made me want to listen to Florence + the Machine, which I'm not mad about
#LGBTQ2024 poetry @Kenyazero #Nonfiction2024 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa
pickAs the title states, this is about transgender history, specifically in the USA. It‘s informative & can be a bit dry at times, reading more like a textbook. I guess I should have taken the title at face value, but I was expecting something w/ a little more emotional depth or personal stories. However, it‘s a piece of history not often (if ever) discussed & so I appreciated it for what it was. In that scope, it was great.
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bailedI'm certainly in the vast minority of people who did not enjoy this book - I even opted to #hailthebail with little under a hundred pages to go as I found myself skimming whole paragraphs. I found the constant ping-pong of trump cards between the characters tiresome, all of whom I found obnoxious and unlikeable to the point of being exasperated by them. (1/?)
Didn't realize how much I needed to see a chapter like Fat, Distributed in print. Feels like seeing conclusions I've just barely gotten onto solid ground with, myself, now available for so many who need to have that moment. 6d
⚠️ED, Fatphobia, transphobia 6d