blaire’s Reviews > Detransition, Baby > Status Update

"You're so sure how things are, how to do things. But the way you do things ends in funerals. Maybe instead of saying what the inevitable outcome is, just make a fucking leap. Because maybe I'm ready to. Maybe try recognizing the chances you have, recognize this chance with me, and be a mom if you want to."

im sobbing

"Just because she saw that the vagaries of capitalism, patriarchy, gender norms, or consumerism contributed to facial dysphoria didn't mean she had developed immunity to them." ... "Call her a fraud, a hypocrite, superficial, but politics and practice parted paths at her *own* body."

ohhhhbdbhhhggghh my god amy :' ((

"The stories formed a trans samizdat so clandestine that you'd have to be a certain sort of trans to ever think about looking for it in the first place. You must be this trans to ride this ride. The first rule of Fictionmania Club is never talk about Fictionmania Club."

finally picking this up again so i recapped myself with the last few pages since it's been a while... ohh this book

i have so many thoughts about this book and i havent even finished it yet. i could write an essay about it and im not even half way done. good lord this book. i need to finish it soon

oh my god this book