Sex Change and the City

by Tuck Woodstock (Editor), Niko Stratis (Editor)

224 pages, Paperback

Published November 6, 2025

Reviews

[mb bischoff · Rating 5 out of 5]

i’m in it, but also it’s good actually. and so are lots of other smart funny, queer and trans freaks. if you like or love Sex and the City, read this. if you’re gay and you want a new TV show to turn off your brain, read this. otherwise, also read this.

[reading serval · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super fun quick read! Very zine vibes. At times hilarious, at other times emotional, at other times so earnest and corny it made me mad. A few titles of incredible media criticism! And a few titles where I was begging the writer to please stop talking about lgbtq representation.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a delightful way to spend an afternoon, and fully accomplishes everything it lays out in the intro: “…perhaps we don't need to choose; we can organize mutual aid networks and share weird, hot, silly, queer art. If nothing else, this collection is a reminder that although our adversaries might attempt to ban our books and erase us from the public record, they ultimately cannot prevent us from publishing whatever we want— whether it's meditations on trans phenomenology or something called "Mr. Big's Phalloplasty Emporium."

Weighting my review +1 star cause it’s early days and by golly these folks deserve it.

[K · Rating 5 out of 5]

This collection of essays and games and art and analysis and brains from queer and trans writers on Sex and the City was exactly what I needed. I have read every crumb of text in this book, and have let my eyes slide over every snippet of visual art in it.

[Many years ago, while learning Spanish, a language exchange friend of mine suggested that we watch SATC in Spanish with English subtitles and vice versa so that he could "learn more about women from the U.S.". It was a wild claim and hilarious ordeal but, over the course of several months and several pauses to ask each other linguistic and cultural information- we watched the entire original series.]

My favorite essay was Straight Party and the City (Chae Sung), and I also enjoyed Aiden is My Friend (Amy Zimmerman), Critical Condition: Face to Face with the Other Nina Katz (Nina Katz) and, of course, Shooting Hoops with my Buddy Steve (M Flack). However: THE WHOLE COLLECTION IS EXCELLENT. From SATC role playing games, to quizzes to identify your queer breakup style, to trans fag representation- this collection is a blender full of queer and trans brilliance looking at the Straight People Zoo (Tuck Woodstock) that is Sex and the City.

[Akiva ꙮ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Been reading this gradually since November. Many good bits, I think the blackout poem was surprisingly one of my faves though. Extra points for an extremely funny cover.