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a bit of a weird choice to listen to on a run but i just got off hold at the library so

ulysses scholars are like bible scholars. im reading along with a guide bc of all the allusions and unclear writing and theres like pictures of the sites in dublin where these things are happening. quotes are cited with line numbers like (4.23). this book is on genius.com with annotations. its incredible

this is just like the beginning of Frankenstein

thats it?? no more of a goodbye for virgilius?? after everything hes done for you???

okay. did not expect a psychoanalytic reading of how 9/11 influenced Twilight so quickly in this book

i dont know about this

art heists in support of political prisoners is awesomeeeee inspiring work genuinely

“cis women secretly cherish[their reproductive abilities]. hysterectomies are widely available but even women who don’t want children aren’t lining up to get them” hello??? in America???

love this chapter but dont know why you need to make fun of women attempting to reckon with and name the way living in a misogynistic world causes real pain in many mundane ways in order to validate the pain of being closeted like. why even bring that up

so glad im in the 2020s san francisco trans community and not the 2010s new york white trans community (as seen through Ames’ eyes at least)

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hate to nitpick but “she divorced her wife in 2005” is not technically an impossible situation but it is giving this author forgot how new gay marriage is

scaring my cat away by audibly yelling at the lobotomy chapter

itll be like oh there was a doctor who was obsessed with removing women’s teeth and its like not that surprising that a guy like that existed bc ppl be crazy but its also like he was one of the most respected physicians of his time and considered to be the most progressive and humane mental health doctors and was allowed to operate for decades despite never curing anyone. oh okay!

reading this book: damn, that’s fucked up. damn, that’s fucked up. wow! i didn’t know that. that’s fucked up.

the no chapters 1-3 page sections that jump between 10 storylines thing is kind of exhausting for me. but its neat

im pre-reviewing this as: could have been a pretty good memoir but is instead a pretty bad book of essays. lets see if i change my mind

you can tell i havent been reading a lot outside of work by the fact that i need to start a second SFW book before finishing the like 130 page NSFW book

i want the record to show that because i work with kids and therefore cant read this at work i was reading a 200+ page anthology of short works by trans writers from the Transchool program by Allies in Art. and anyway it rocked and i finished it today but its not on goodreads so there

unless most reflections on one’s wild youth where it’s all regretful and about it being self destructive or whatever this chapter actually succeeds in not filling me with envy

two things
1 - when will someone craft an elaborate scavenger hunt just for me
2 - i think its great she and her friends used to greet each other with hickeys. i think biting can be platonic

it’s giving lesbianism

“What once were personality quirks that made your emails more relatable are now sandbags against the door to potential.” RESONANT!

man Fences is much more resonant and devastating to me now as an adult than when I was 18

i want to read an essay on the construction of christianity in august wilson’s plays

this take that the affirmative consent framework casts women in the role of only acquiescing to or refusing the desire of men and erases their own desire is very uhhh stupid to me. because it goes both/all ways does it not. a woman can pursue a man and affirmative consent is still required. i dont get this

hate that this audiobook is narrated by someone with a british accent but i’ll try to be normal about it

“Charlotte Perkins Gilmour” (instead of Gilman) making it in the final edit is CRAZY

THE SURREALIST PICABIA? that is a DADA MAN. dont make me laugh.