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Stone Butch Blues
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s_evan s_evan said: " I can't believe I hadn't read this! I think I tried maybe 10 years ago and couldn't get into it. Jess' story - struggle and solitude - along with how gender presentation and queer existence was lived before my time (in fact, this book was published a ...more "

 
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