Rowan’s Reviews > Stone Butch Blues > Status Update

“It was hard to say who was a woman, who was a man. Their faces radiated a different kind of beauty than I’d grown-up seeing celebrated on television or in magazines. It’s a beauty one isn’t born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.”

“I’ve been going to the library, looking up our history. There’s a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven’t always been hated. Why didn’t we grow up knowing that?”