Status Updates From Persistence: All Ways Butch...

"I am beautiful. It turns out I was a Swan all along."

"I want to thank you for coming out of the closet. Again and again, over and over, for the rest of your life."

"Thank you for wearing the matching bra and panties. I don't know why it makes my life seem so perfect but it does."

May have over exaggerated a bit. I still dislike a handful of the essays, but there are also a handful in here that have aged wonderfully and that I very much do resonate with. The reviews were definitely right about the book being a mixed bag.

I was already well aware of just how normalised age gap relationships are in the queer community, but I'm not even a quarter of the way through and it's already heavily reinforced that belief for me. I honestly could not care if I'm being oversensitive because at least I can cope with having my queer identity be rejected by my parents like a normal person😭 You don't want partners, you want to be coddled.

THE CHAIR OF THE TRENR GESO DEPARTMENT HAS AN ESSAY IN THIS AND IT WAS AWESOME