Book nerd, cat person, tree hugger. Intersex, queer & disabled. Pronouns: ze/zer or she/her
I appreciate book recommendations of: 1. Futuristic sci-fi books where we actually mitigate climate change. 💚 2. Hard sci-fi but with queer/feminist gender politics. (I want more Expanse 😭 ) 🛰️🏳️⚧️ 3. Stories with quality intersex representation that do not contain sexual violence. 💜
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A must read for people who like science fiction and space. It takes place in …
Reread the whole series and don't feel like re-entering every single book from the series.
Reread the whole series and don't feel like re-entering every single book from the series.
The start is looking good!
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their …
My enjoyment of the book was really uneven. There's good stuff in there! But the Victorian patriarchal lens on biology is tiresome and the early mention of Roughgarden's work made me expect better :/
The author seems best able to be critical of when biology is doing patriarchy when it comes to same-sex mating, and I felt he did a good job showing how absurdly heteronormative biologists can be. When he shifted into trying to cover "trans" stuff is when things started going downhill for me. (Trans is in quotes since so much of the "trans" content is actually intersex, cosexual, or dichogamous)
My enjoyment of the book was really uneven. There's good stuff in there! But the Victorian patriarchal lens on biology is tiresome and the early mention of Roughgarden's work made me expect better :/
The author seems best able to be critical of when biology is doing patriarchy when it comes to same-sex mating, and I felt he did a good job showing how absurdly heteronormative biologists can be. When he shifted into trying to cover "trans" stuff is when things started going downhill for me. (Trans is in quotes since so much of the "trans" content is actually intersex, cosexual, or dichogamous)
"When Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking …
Read as part of Intersex Book Club. Davis has a lot of good data and insights, like showing how parents do not actually provide real informed consent to IGM and how physicians coerce parents into "consent". The interviews with physicians were rightly enraging for how they treat intersex people.
Unfortunately, Davis does a lot of DSD apologia and keeps pushing this "biological citizenship" idea to try and legitimate intermedicalism.
Chapter 4 in a nutshell was: people who reject DSD language have better relationships with their bodies and gender identities... but have we considered that they are not doing enough respectability politics? Maybe the people who are embracing their own oppression are onto something here. 🙃
I found the dissertation that the book is based on, and Davis doesn't seem to do any of this respectability politics stuff in the dissertation. I don't know what happened there, but …
Read as part of Intersex Book Club. Davis has a lot of good data and insights, like showing how parents do not actually provide real informed consent to IGM and how physicians coerce parents into "consent". The interviews with physicians were rightly enraging for how they treat intersex people.
Unfortunately, Davis does a lot of DSD apologia and keeps pushing this "biological citizenship" idea to try and legitimate intermedicalism.
Chapter 4 in a nutshell was: people who reject DSD language have better relationships with their bodies and gender identities... but have we considered that they are not doing enough respectability politics? Maybe the people who are embracing their own oppression are onto something here. 🙃
I found the dissertation that the book is based on, and Davis doesn't seem to do any of this respectability politics stuff in the dissertation. I don't know what happened there, but I would recommend reading the dissertation instead. It's available here: indigo.uic.edu/articles/thesis/Gender_Players_and_Gender_Prisoners_When_Intersex_Activism_Medical_Authority_and_Terminology_Collide/10912415/1/files/19410506.pdf
"When Georgiann Davis was a teenager, her doctors discovered that she possessed XY chromosomes, marking her as intersex. Rather than …
Really appreciated the insights into modern-day intersex advocacy history!
The graphic sexual violence in this book makes it hard for me to recommend it. It feels like it comes out of nowhere and feels like Viloria is trying to shock you into feeling the same trauma they went through, without regard for any readers who may have PTSD. This book needs so many content warnings upfront holy crap.
The parts of this book that were Viloria doing activism and having fun queer times were lovely. I'd recommend the book for that. Maybe skip the first chapter entirely though.
The graphic sexual violence in this book makes it hard for me to recommend it. It feels like it comes out of nowhere and feels like Viloria is trying to shock you into feeling the same trauma they went through, without regard for any readers who may have PTSD. This book needs so many content warnings upfront holy crap.
The parts of this book that were Viloria doing activism and having fun queer times were lovely. I'd recommend the book for that. Maybe skip the first chapter entirely though.
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it …
The chapters that were autobiographical were interesting and well written. Unfortunately the chapters that were in an academic register were SO inaccessibly written that it was frustrating.
Syd (no pronouns, please) has always dealt with big, hard-to-talk-about things by baking. Being dumped is no different, except now …
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
Guessing at start/end dates.
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
