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“All my white girlfriends just automatically assume that reproductive rights are about the right to not have children, as if the right and naturalness of motherhood is presumptive. But for lots of other women in this country, the opposite is true. Think about black women, poor women, immigrant women. Think about forced sterilization, about the term ‘welfare queens,’ or ‘anchor babies.’ All of that happened to enforce the idea that not all motherhoods are legitimate.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
“Yes.” Reese nods. “I mean, they go through everything I go through as a trans woman. Divorce is a transition story. Of course, not all divorced women go through it. I’m talking about the ones who felt their divorce as a fall, or as a total reframing of their lives. The ones who have seen how the narratives given to them since girlhood have failed them, and who know there is nothing to replace it all. But who still have to move forward without investing in new illusions or turning bitter—all with no plan to guide them. That’s as close to a trans woman as you can get. Divorced women are the only people who know anything like what I know. And, since I don’t really have trans elders, divorced women are the only ones I think have anything to teach me, or who I care to teach in return.”
― Detransition, Baby
― Detransition, Baby
Dani’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dani’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,296 books
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9 friends
1,318 books
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86 friends
3,647 books
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88 friends
719 books
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69 friends
683 books
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17 friends
95 books
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48 friends
1,240 books
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151 friends
753 books
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162 friends
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