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Excellent. I loved it. There were so many moments where I could relate.
Just as Torrey Peters says herself in the acknowledgements: This book is a story of trans feminine culture in the new millenium.
Excellent. I loved it. There were so many moments where I could relate.
Just as Torrey Peters says herself in the acknowledgements: This book is a story of trans feminine culture in the new millenium.
@szczurtorebkowy@ohai.social @agturcz@circumstances.run I really love it very much. It’s a very beautiful love story in and by itself. And tells a lot about what we, trans women, can feel and live in our love life, all the questions we face, or could have faced as the persons in the story are quite younger than I am.
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Each chapter I read in this book is as powerful as a deep therapy session I was not prepared to.
So much to unpack in this book. In every chapter there are new things bringing me back to introspection and understanding of my feelings and yearnings 😳🏳️⚧️
So much to unpack in this book. In every chapter there are new things bringing me back to introspection and understanding of my feelings and yearnings 😳🏳️⚧️
in goth apparel you can look sad while also showing off fishnets and boobs
— Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Page 210)
Amy was disgusted at the way she craved approval through behavior that made her feel like a cosmic joke: an asshole with no self-esteem who wanted to be one of the girls so badly there weren't even the words for it, so she got close in the crudest ways instead.
— Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Page 131)
I wasn’t expecting to find such descriptions of myself in there… 😳 … and in ways I was incapable of understanding back then.
Finished 3rd chapter and it is already very good: emotional, funny and somehow relatable.
Content warning Detransition Baby, mid chapter 3
Many people think a trans woman's deepest desire is to live in her true gender, but actually it is to always stand in good lighting.
— Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Page 92)
Content warning Spoiler: Detransition Baby, end chapter 2
“You want to U-Haul already? You really are a lesbian, huh?"
— Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (Page 76)
I've heard too many good things about this book not to read it!
I've heard too many good things about this book not to read it!
Transitioning is an alignment of the invisible and the physical. It is truth rising to the surface. It is one …
