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A modern, personal guide to the culture of queer women and everyone in between.

All The Things She Said explores the nature of 21st century queerness. Lesbian and bi culture is ever-changing and here, journalist Daisy Jones unpicks outdated stereotypes and shows how, over the past few years, the style and shared language of queer women has slowly infiltrated the mainstream. (Think less hemp sandals, IKEA trips and nut milks and more freedom, expression, community. And Cate Blanchett.)

From the dingy basement clubs of east London to the unchartered realms of TikTok, cutting in DIY mullets and christening Meryl Streep 'Daddy', Daisy explores the multifaceted nature of what it means to be lesbian or bi today, while also looking back and celebrating the past.

The book shines a light on the never-ending process of coming out, what it's like to date as a queer woman, how physical nightlife spaces have evolved into online communities and the reasons why mental health issues have disproportionately impacted LGBTQ+ people.

As someone immersed in the queer culture of women, Daisy brings both the personal perspective and a journalistic one to this changing landscape. Through interviews and lived experience, a cohesive image emerges: one which shows that being lesbian, bi, or anything in between, isn't necessarily always tied to gender, sexual practice or even romantic attraction.

With verve, humour and razor-sharp prose, Daisy paints a vital and insightful modern day portrait of what it means to be a queer woman in 2021.

240 pages, Paperback

First published June 3, 2021

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482 reviews161 followers
June 14, 2021
2.5/5 Stars

When I first started reading this book, I immediately was drawn into Daisy Jones' informal, chatty writing style and I was really excited to read this sapphic nonfiction book that was not in the slightest bit condescending to the reader. But then shortly after the author described herself as being a lesbian while in the same breath saying that she is attracted to men. This is not okay for a myriad of reasons that I won't be getting into in this review, but I can really say that from this point on I found my thoughts on the book just a bit tainted.

This book is far from being original and in essence it's very surface level when it comes to the issues presented, which is fine, but I really wanted to feel something while I read the book. I enjoyed the fact that the author included so much about her own journey with her sexuality and queer culture, and it did make the book all that more fun, but I think that, despite efforts to make the book as diverse as possible, a lot of it felt very white and focussed on sapphic culture in the early to mid 2000s. Yes, apps like Tinder and TikTok were mentioned, because it'd be ridiculous not to mention the effect that they have on sapphic culture nowadays, but other than that it was stock full of almost outdated references that I feel a lot of younger sapphics just do not relate to. I think it would have worked much better if, yes those aspects were kept in because no one can deny the effect that All the Things She Said and The L Word had, more recent examples were added too and given the same amount of nuance. I would also have liked to see more nuance with reference to trans and nonbinary sapphics and sapphic people of colour as, as I mentioned earlier, this book really only focusses on what is very white sapphic culture. I do acknowledge the fact that this book is titled everything I know about modern lesbian and bi culture, but it feels very insular.

Overall, would I recommend this book? No, probably not, especially if you are sapphic yourself, as a lot of it is not gonna be news to you. If you are a member of the queer community who isn't sapphic, yeah why not pick it up. But otherwise, I should have DNF-ed after the lesbophobic nonsense in the introduction.

Thanks to Netgalley and Hodder & Stoughton for an eARC in return for an honest review!

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513 reviews55 followers
July 26, 2021
Yet another reading experience left to teeter between 3 and 4 stars. I'm tentatively rounding up basically just for how much the author's explanation and exploration of her sexuality and what the label "lesbian" means to her resonated with me. I FELT SO SEEN etc.

Overall this was a well-written, fun and enjoyable exploration of queer women's culture in the recent decades. So basically what it says on the tin. The subtitle "Everything I Know About Modern Lesbian and Bi Culture" is spot-on, and also unfortunately encapsulates some of the shortcomings of this book. As in, it's definitely written from one perspective and mostly stays within that scope. Jones does, imo, an excellent job of reminding the reader of the intersections and minorities within minorities in queer culture, but the focus is still very white, very young, relatively cis (although the interviews cover a delightful swathe of gender identities so it's not all cis lesbians here, thankfully!) and all in all somewhat narrow in scope. However, I don't think that's necessarily a flaw of the author or the book, you can only cover so much ground in 240 pages after all. And Jones is clearly writing primarily from her own experiences, and I think that's fine. This isn't a memoir, but neither does it claim to be a comprehensive history of queer culture from the beginning of time and all across the world. It's one British queer woman's take on the culture she lives and grew up in, with nice interview-based peeks into other experiences to fill in the gaps. It's fine.

As a queer woman only a year younger than the author, it was fascinating to see where our experiences overlapped and differed. I've been aware of my queerness for a good 15 or so years now, but my touchpoints in queer culture have been quite different from the mainstream in many ways. My queer culture began as alternative music culture and - perhaps in part due to my country of birth and the different cultural landscape in that sense - I have never sought representations of myself in iconic products of queer culture like The L Word. In fact, I have never seen a single episode of The L Word and I am probably going to be plopped into a casket still not having done so. But of course I know the show means quite a lot to many queer ladies of my generation and especially those slightly older, so I came in expecting to read a lot about it. But even so, I am a little annoyed that if you were to build your comprehension of lesbian/bi/queer women's culture solely based on this book, you would probably think that the only shows and movies that matter to us are The L Word, Sugar Rush and Carol. Literally to the point that the chapter of this book titled "Film", barely mentions any other film than Carol. Now I love that movie as much as the next queer gal, but if you're going to write an entire essay about Carol and the queer sex appeal of Cate Blanchett, call it "Carol and the queer sex appeal of Cate Blanchett" and not "Film". These were the kinds of oddly myopic takes on lesbian culture that frustrated me while reading this.

So all in all this was a very nice collection of essays on lesbian and bi (but honestly mostly lesbian) culture in the 21st century, but it's probably not going to bring anything that new to the table. The comfort and pleasure it gave me as a lesbian who rarely feels very seen in culture was palpable, but I think that might be the extent of its cultural impact. Therefore I would recommend this to other 20-something lesbians who want to feel seen and maybe also have a chuckle at ourselves in a kind, communal sense, but doubt other demographics are going to get a whole lot out of it. In fact, you should probably read Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ + Culture instead, for a much more comprehensive and nuanced view!
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181 reviews8 followers
February 3, 2022
liked but didn’t love. certain parts really resonated and held my attention, but other chapters were kind of boring - and actually might be more interesting to someone who doesn’t identify as a queer woman. like, i don’t need to read about tiktok, or tumblr in 2014, or why the lesbians love cate blanchett, you know?
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3 reviews
June 13, 2021
I just finished this book, which I devoured. Part memoir and part study, Daisy fluctuates between memories, reflections, research, interviews, theory and history beautifully. I have learnt so much. What a book and what a mind. All the stars.
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126 reviews
May 8, 2021
A very insightful and informative look at lesbian and bi culture. This book shows how things have changed over the years, and how some things are still the same. With some personal anecdotes as well as pure facts, and with chapters ranging from music, film and tv to dating, clubs, and mental health, this book covers many topics and how they impact lesbian and bi culture. Jones has clearly made an effort to be as inclusive as possible throughout this book, with mentions of trans and nonbinary people at times. In this ARC there was one sentence where disabled people were referred to as "differently abled", a term many disabled people despise. However, after reaching out to the author, I was told this would be changed to reflect the language that disabled people prefer. This is an incredible and up to date book on lesbian and bi culture. 
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138 reviews7 followers
March 15, 2022
Some parts of the book read more like a uni essay where u desperately try to segue from one random bit into the next, with stats thrown in to make it meatier (chapters being separated into neat categories also didn’t help) BUT having said that it’s a wonderful exploration of all the little things in lesbian and bi culture that we all feel but can’t pin down.

There’s also something incredible in seeing your weird niche gay experience in print🥲 made me feel ✨seen✨
131 reviews
April 21, 2023
The book I didn't know I had to read
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1,089 reviews41 followers
April 30, 2021
All The Things She Said (named after the *very* memorable 2002 song by t.A.T.u) is an exploration of 21st century queer culture and shows how lesbian and bi culture has started to infiltrate the mainstream.

So first, the good bits:

I loved the author's writing style. Factual, but conversational, like you're having a chat with a mate and they're telling you about her specialist subject, but not in a patronising way. I think sometimes journalism skills don't translate into book-writing skills, but in this case they did.

It was super inclusive and included conversations with trans and NB folk. Yes, please. More of this.

Also, that it focuses on UK queer culture. There is not enough of this around. Americans are lovely, but I'm not American and their mainstream culture and queer culture is just different from ours so this was really refreshing to read.

OK, so I do not understand the author's obsession with mullets. Seriously? Mullets?? The impression I got was that mullets are this ubiquitous must-have style for the modern lesbian. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's not! I'm as old as dirt and I can remember Pat Sharp's scary mullet on Art Attack in the eighties; it wasn't a good look then and I don't care how many hot women decide to go 'business up top, party at the back' - it will never be a good look.

The only thing that stopped this being a five star read was that the viewpoint it was written from was purely personal. And I totally get why this is - there are as many experiences of queer culture as there are queer people so to cover everyone's experience would have been impossible. However, I thought from the blurb that this would be written from a broader point of view. The author's experiences are very different from my own, so ultimately I didn't find myself going 'Yes yes! Me too!' as I was reading, like at all, (see above re. mullets).

Thanks to Hodder & Stoughton and Netgalley for a review copy of this book.
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48 reviews1 follower
August 22, 2022
I find it a bit hard to write a review on this book, mostly because it took me ages to finish it due to a very busy schedule (and low energy lol). I liked how every chapter in this book was dedicated to a theme: the way the book was “built up” made a lot of sense. I especially liked the last chapters about style, the internet and mental health, mostly because these chapters were the ones that presented me with the most new information.

Sometimes the creative writing was a tad bit too much. Some of the given examples or written scenarios were too random or “too creative” to my taste. I think they were in the book just because it sounded cool or edgy. But, in the end I did like the book and I will definitely keep it in my bookcase even though I have very little space left :-)
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34 reviews4 followers
October 2, 2023
I think I have never felt this represented in a book before. It was like reading about my own life. It was like having my experience as an insecure and lost and horny lesbian twenty year old formed into words and put together into a hot and relatable book. It was like sharing inside jokes with a stranger because we are equally obsessed with Cate Blanchett and The L Word. It was well written, inclusive, informative, humorous and sapphic.
I didn’t know how much I needed this book.
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4 reviews
July 5, 2021
been dreaming of a book like this for years and it did not disappoint
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170 reviews1 follower
June 12, 2024
Ich hätte es ohne den Book Club weder angefangen noch fertig gelesen tbh. Ich verstehe, was die Autorin wollte und man merkt, dass sie sehr bemüht war, möglichst viele Erfahrungen abzudecken aber das ganze Format hat mich leider überhaupt nicht gecatched.
86 reviews
January 29, 2024
An informative listen and a good stepping stone to lesbian culture, however I think you could only really resonate if you were a white British lesbian during the 2000s in London. This book definitely focussed heavily on lesbian culture and only briefly mentions bi culture. I felt some chapters were repetitive i.e. always circling back to Cate Blanchett, t.a.T.u, The L Word.
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January 6, 2023
This was such a great read, highly recommend
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180 reviews20 followers
September 2, 2022
I struggle to rate this book simply because I didn’t really connect to the first few chapters. I enjoyed the ones about film and mental health the most, the one about the internet was also interesting, especially because I am not a big tiktok user and didn’t fully know the extent to which queer people use it to connect.

A lot of the earlier examples in the book went over my head, though, probably because I am a few years younger than the author or because I’m not British nor from an English speaking country. It was interesting to see the author’s personal experiences though, some of which were definitely relatable.

The issue with a book like that is of course that even if you interview a diverse group of people to add more depth along with the personal experiences of you as an author, you just cannot paint a big enough picture of lesbian and bi culture like the subtitle promises. It stays very much within the scope of English media, London/UK club culture and western trends. Which is not necessarily bad, but I think that’s only a fraction of modern queer culture as a whole.

Some chapters in my opinion would have also benefited from more in-depth views, especially the one about the internet. Considering that tiktok is a Chinese company and queer people there are heavily oppressed I kind of would have liked a more critical analysis. And the whole topic is so big, it just cannot fit into one short chapter.

Overall I’d still recommend the book, especially to older millennials who can probably relate a lot more to the contents.
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20 reviews3 followers
November 22, 2022
I listened to this as an audiobook. After 5 mins into the preface I considered returning it as it seemed much focused on lesbian and bi popular culture which isn’t something I’d consider wholly relatable. However I decided that was a silly thought and started the first chapter and never looked back! However much I related, or didn’t, this book is super interesting and made even better by Daisy Jones’ sarcastic humour and Britishness!
Some bits were me all over, some were the opposite. Either way I enjoyed it so much and will be recommending it to all my queer and non-queer friends.
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345 reviews61 followers
July 25, 2023
A bag of very mixed beans.
Alustuseks: ma armastan popkultuuri. Võib-olla veelgi enam armastan selle analüüsimist ja seoste loomist erinevate valdkondade ja distsipliinide vahel (kirjandus ja ühiskondlikud nähtused; vaimse tervise kujutamine filmides; kunst ja iluideaalid... you name it). Nii et raamat LGBT+ (täpsemalt lesbi ja bi gruppidest) ja popkultuuri ristumiskohtadest tundus väga põnev asi, mida kätte võtta.

Osanisti oli ka. Raamatus käidi läbi erinevaid valdkondi (film, TV, muusika, internet jmt), kust võib leida bi/lesbide mõjutusi ja vastupidi, mis on mõjutanud nimetatud seksuaalvähemusi. Samas siinkohal teeksin otsekohe suure möönduse - biseksuaalsete kultuurist siit sisuliselt midagi ei leia, peamiselt on ikkagi tegu lesbikultuuriga. Mõneti see haakub, kuna tegemist on wlw suunaga, aga siiski on piisavalt palju erinevusi, et tajuda end vähekõnetatuna, kui olla bi.

Teise häiriva asjaoluna tooksin välja selle, et kuigi autor räägib päris palju stereotüüpide kahjulikkusest, kasutab ta ise lesbide ja biseksuaalide kirjeldamiseks väga palju liigtuttavaid visuaale, silte ja trope'e. Kuigi autor ütleb, et kõiki ei saa ühe puuga lüüa ja lesbisid on väga erinevaid, jääb väga kõlama siiski mulletiga "praktilistes ja mugavates" riietes needistatud kassiomaniku vibe. Minu jaoks oli see üleliia stereotüüpne ja kategoriseeriv visuaal, mida kaasa võtta - isegi, kui see kipub reaalsuses sageli ette tulema, on see siiski liiga kitsas lähenemine, mis tahes-tahtmata võib tekitada lugejas tunde, kas ta on "piisavalt lesbi" või "piisavalt bi" või "piisavalt queer", et olla osa LGBT+ kultuurist ja autori kirjeldatust.

Erinevaid valdkondi ja teemasid puudutavad esseed võivad jääda samuti liiga kitsaks, st 20ndate eluaastate alguses USA/UK meediaruumis tegutseva valge naise perspektiivi, kes sealjuures ei tundu olevat süvitsi õppinud ühtegi neist teemadest, millest ta kirjutab (nt vaimne tervis, filmikunst, kirjandus). Kuigi autor annab oma esseedega oma poindid edasi ja toob näiteid, jäävad need vahel liiga korduvaks, üheülbaliseks või väheseks. Olen enam kui kindel, et queer popkultuur võimaldab tuua palju rohkemaid ja mitmekülgsemaid näiteid, mis ei jää nii palju kinni autori enda eelistustesse ja silmaringi.

Samas oli mõni essee jällegi väga kaasahaarav ja äratundmist pakkuv, andes sisevaadet ka mõnda endale vähem tuntud ühiskondlikku nähtusesse või popkultuuri momenti. Lisaks kannab teos üleüldse olulist väärtust kui mingit sorti läbilõige teatud ajaperioodi LGBT+ kultuuriruumist ingliskeelses lääneühiskonnas. Võrdlemisi kergesti loetav ja hoomatav.
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91 reviews1 follower
September 6, 2022
i’m going to be honest - i really wanted to love this book. i wanted it to be the kind of thing you can recommend far and wide. i loved the first chapter, where jones discusses the difficulty of pinning down identify and the nuances of queerness, and i enjoyed her perspectives and her interviewees’ anecdotes

the first, more frivolous issue i had was how badly this book wants to be cool. this was reflected in a universally rosy portrait of apps like tinder or tiktok (which i think very few lesbians love unreservedly) as well as an adulation for gen z which, while potentially well placed, ignores the prevalence of alt right and conservative tendencies that exist in every generation - and btw are often spread on platforms like tiktok. but most egregiously i physically had to force myself through the rest of the book when i encountered a line along the lines “not all of us like sausages. some of us prefer oysters” which is the kind of stuff i would read on tumblr blogs 10 years ago while surreptitiously googling “signs that you’re gay”, cringing at it even then

worse though i thought was the total western-centrism of the book. i know it cannot be all things to all people, and that it’s framed personally - “everything i know” - but how are you going to talk about the boom in lesbian film in the 2010s and not mention the handmaiden? for however many british teens had their sexual awakenings from watching sugar rush, how many were captivated seeing depictions of queerness and gender fluidity in shows like sailor moon? even in a uk context i would have loved to hear more about the lesbian scenes outside of london and among communities of colour

i guess the fact it’s a personal account that excludes these things wouldn’t bother me if it weren’t also hoping to capture the mood or a movement of a whole generation of queer women - and in that capacity i think it’s really unfinished
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118 reviews19 followers
July 10, 2021
A viscerally warm and joyous part-memoir part-social history that's both a riotous celebration and a deeply introspective primer brimming with pop culture.

"There's an authenticity that sits right at the heart of queer culture that makes it inherently appealing. The things that society teaches you to hate about yourself – the way you cross your legs on a chair, the way t-shirts hang on your body, the stuff that holds your attention – queer culture more readily embraces. Within the culture of lesbians especially, the male gaze – the idea that you should dress and act a certain way to appease men – is taken out almost entirely; it's simply not there. And what you have left, is space. Endless, free space to be yourself."

"In later years, therapists would try to mine me for trauma surrounding my coming out. They didn't understand that trauma doesn't always have its root in queerness. You can be healthy in your queerness and fucked up everywhere else. Or, more accurately, the initial coming out itself isn't the only and original source of anguish."

"It's been over a decade since I first walked into the Joiners but still I remember the feeling of being surrounded by queer people and still I crave that feeling today. I breathe a sigh of relief when I'm in an LGBTQ space even now. It's subtle, my body relaxing in minute and indeterminable ways, like how your muscles stop tensing one by one when you climb into a hot bath."

"Mental health problems can exist through a lens of shame and isolation. Anger gets magnified. The queer experience never got you into this mess, but the queer experience was there to pull you out of it."
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21 reviews
December 29, 2022
I really had to force myself to finish this book. The only reason I powered through was because its the end of the year and I had a reading goal. The subtitle "everything I know about modern lesbian and bi culture" is pointless. This books seems to only make reference to the specific experience of a British lesbian. While bisexuality is brought up every now and again there is absolutely no real exploration of the bi experience. If that were the only problem though I might have been able to keep going but the references are all over the place. 1 chapter spends 18 pages talking about 1 movie while another jumps randomly back and forth referencing dozens of London based nightclubs, club nights and personalities. This book needed a serious edit to make it readable. It comes across like a college student who picked a thesis topic they thought they knew enough about to not need to study anything for it. Some chapters are over stuffed with two much to concentrate on and others are just the same point repeated in different ways for 20 pages. I am sure their is a specific type of person out there (probably British lesbians) who this book is for but unless you like rambling pseudo insightful writing don't bother. About halfway through I decided to give this book 2 stars because although I was not enjoying it I could understand that a. This is a topic we need to see more of and b. I probably just wasn't the right audience
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108 reviews1 follower
September 6, 2021
This book popped up on my radar only about a couple of months ago, and of course I instantly added it to by TBR list, not expecting to get to it any time soon. On my most recent trip to the library I found none other than a fresh hardback copy sitting pretty on top of the shelf! I'm pretty sure I am the first person to take it out!
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I have read similar things before - a sort of blend of information/history/memoir. The thing about this is that it's so much closer to home than I am used to. The author is five years older than me and lives in London. A lot of the pop culture she references are things that I know and remember, a lot of the events I have been to or have heard of, and we have had a lot of similar experiences. While I didn't learn an awful lot from this (where usually I would learn a fair bit, naturally, reading about LGBTQ+ culture in another country and/or from the perspective of someone from another generation) it was definitely exciting to see my experiences reflected back to me.
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I think the author does a really good job of covering the basics of the community: the good, the bad, the ugly, and suggestions on how to remedy the latter - especially concerning the continuing closures of private sector queer spaces (and I would add cuts to queer initiatives in the public sector) and how any negative effects on the queer community disproportionality impacts queer people who are Black, from ethnic minorities, differently abled, or come from a socioeconomically deprived background.
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This book is a self-described time capsule, documenting the culture of right here right now forever. It looks to the future, full of hope and excitement.
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10 reviews
February 17, 2025
Thoroughly enjoyed this insight into Daisy Jones' queer experiences and outlook on Lesbian and Bi representation in the media, in her lifetime.

I found myself reading along and feeling very seen, with myself being a few years younger than the author - my feelings and experiences validated.The formative chapters on growing up, feeling pressures from external forces, and feeling out of place in a heteronormative society were comforting - especially conforming to gender norms in them delicate teenage years and not having the words to describe feelings.

My particular favourite chapter was the Mental Health one, once again, echoing my own experiences and highlighting how the LGBTQ community are fundamentally more susceptible to mental health conditions.

I enjoyed Daisy Jones' informative and journalistic way of writing and learnt a lot throughout about queer culture especially in the early 2000s (I probably should watch the L word, etc.)

However, my only criticism would be that there wasn't much depth regarding the experiences of queer people of colour, and the films and TV mentioned focuses on predominantly white queer women. Having said this, it is Daisy Jones' direct experiences as a queer white women and 'everything she knows', so grace can be given here! Overall, insightful and relatable writing about the experiences of a Millenial Lesbian!
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100 reviews
December 1, 2024
a fun read. i originally started this as an audiobook earlier this year and never could make my way through it, but after picking up the paperback in an oxfam i ate this book up. om nom nom. a lovely reminder of the magic and sexiness of physical media!!

the book itself is maybe not groundbreaking reading but i love anything that makes me feel more connected with queer community. it was especially fun seeing areas of london mentioned that i grew up near / visit often now. i don’t have any older queer people in my life, so reading this book felt like a chatty, gossipy conversation with a veteran lesbian, welcoming me in. i love being queer :)
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38 reviews1 follower
October 29, 2021
This is a really fun, well written book, but the problem is I just got bored. I feel like maybe the intended audience is heterosexual people who want to get to know queer culture, but there's a lot of interviews in here of a lot of queer women that other sapphics would find interesting. I feel like you could learn 90% of what's spoken about in this book from scrolling lesbian tik tok. The author also described being a lesbian as also having the inclination to sleep with men, which seems...iffy to me (but maybe because I can't relate to it).
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Author 2 books49 followers
September 4, 2023
Mahtava!!!! Ainoa miinus siitä, että olisin toivonut vähän lisää puhetta transnaisista ja -feminiineistä – muunsukupuoliset ovat kiitettävästi esillä, mut etenkin mielenterveyttä käsittelevässä luvussa olisi tärkeää mainita vielä erikseen transfobian vaikutukset, jotka kohdistuvat tällä hetkellä erityisesti transfeminiineihin.

Muuten siis aivan loistava esseetyylinen teos, jossa käsitellään wlw-kulttuuria laajasti ja monipuolisesti <3 (Lukusuositus myös niille, jotka eivät tähän vähemmistöön kuulu!)
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186 reviews12 followers
February 28, 2024
I think it was too plain and simple, as I expected an in deepth study of the matter ( My fault, I know). I appreciate the effort of the author in including many interesting sources and interviews, though.
A nice book if you want to start reading non fictional books about queer culture, but it was a little boring and niche for me.
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247 reviews13 followers
November 16, 2021
- Interesting, Relatable, Stimulating

- So many great references to queer culture and lots of insightful thoughts shared by the author

- The chapters on style and mental health were particularly poignant to me

*Full review to come*
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272 reviews3 followers
August 17, 2022
this was just okay-ish. some chapters are really good but mainly this just didn't go deep enough for me, the reflections are very brief and kind of just scratch the surface. not an amazing read but not a terrible one
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14 reviews4 followers
July 8, 2021
Gorgeous and funny and timely. I laughed and smiled and felt comforted that half formed thoughts Ive had about queer identity where put down so thoughtfully!! A must read.
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