Laurie McKane’s Reviews > Roses for Hedone: On Queer Hedonism and World-Making Through Pleasure > Status Update

"...queer people can create a reality that may help them survive in a world that erases or vilifies their authentic selves. This is especially true of trans, non binary, and gender nonconforming people, for whom existing in a bio-essentialist and binary gendered society may be unpleasant, dysphoric, or simply unbearable. Through kink, trans people can write themselves into the bodies and roles they wish to occupy..."