Status Updates From Otros valles

I usually don’t comment on books I’m not done with but I can already tell this is going to be a new favorite. It feels like this book is speaking to my soul, articulating the thoughts I cannot convey to the point I don’t feel alone.

"No. She walks up to me and smiles. In a playful,
almost skeptical, loud voice she asks, Oh my god, are you trans? I love
tr***ies! She doesn't introduce herself, she doesn't sit down, she
simply stands there grinning like she's just won a fucking prize."
Huh, this is very similar to a bit in Ryka Aoki's To The New World, iirc...

Trying to decide how much to read into this book's meta analysis of itself, projected or otherwise:
"But this book has done the opposite – it welcomed me with its fluid
prose, kept me close with the uncertainty of the narrator regarding her
language, history, and place in the world, a narrative that seems to
wander yet cuts ever nearer to a specific concern, even as it already
nears the next object of interest."

I am blown away each time this book brings up like, being autistic or asexual, with relation to being trans. These concepts were not in my head in 2014 and I wish they were.

Ay wait a sec:
"But on the other hand, the book reminds me of other books I've read
which give the reader a thin layer of narrative to stand on, which works
in the service of arguments the author seeks to advance, books in which
the narrative is an afterthought, books in which the characters are but
thinly veiled representatives for certain philosophies or beliefs,
cardboard cut-outs being moved around an empty set."

There's a lot about community, both as a queer person and broadly in this book, and personally I have mixed feelings about it. What's so great about community anyway?

Y'know, pathetically, I think this is the first book I've ever read with a non-binary transfemme protagonist.

I hate to "Like Nevada But" this book, however they draw comparison because(intertext aside!) the nameless woman in this is so deeply in touch with her personal, social, mental, societal problems, compared to Maria Griffiths' constant detachment. Sincerity Nevada, a stream of consciousness that is tender and considered instead of brash and weird.

"like the white trans women who proudly made a collection of trans women's fiction and only published white trans
women,"
Actually drawing a blank on what this is referring to. Not *The Collection*, but what?