Gay, trans, non-binary EFL teacher from South America. Trying to read more English, women and trans* authors, science fiction, and understandings of gender mysteries. Se habla español y chileno. Quejas principalmente en español.
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Axiom's End is a 2020 science fiction novel by American writer Lindsay Ellis. Set in 2007, the novel is about …
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) …
[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: The Left Hand of Darkness by …
Am I kinda shipping Genry and Harth, Mr. Ai? "Who uses first names? Hearth-brothers, or friends." They are not friends and Genry is hurt about it.
On a summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding …
As a gay trans non-binary person who has never engaged in heterosexuality, reading this book felt like reading a work of science fiction about an alien civilization. It was fun, and sometimes depressing, but most of the times I was baffled by the depictions of men, women and their marriages. I felt like I was watching a David Attenborough documentary on straight cis people. I did double takes and I had to double check with my straight friends. (According to them, apparently sometimes it kinda is like that, but the machiavellianism is less elaborate?)
Overall, a fun read with despisable characters that I had a hard time understanding, but I think that's on me. The real villain of the book was heteronormativity, and the real victim was Detective Boney.
On a summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding …
Been reading lots of memoirs and non-fiction lately so I thought I would give this a read. I watched the movie first, hopefully I can enjoy the book.
"What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee …
This book felt personal, in a good way. I liked it more than its successor, Amateur, although at times it felt a bit inscrutable in its writing, probably because of that same personal nature.
"From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with 'hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love' (Maggie …
I found some interesting and novel ideas about masculinity, but I felt most of them lacked development. They felt like glimpses of light, some interesting perspectives about familiar subjects, and I only wish the author had spent some more time delving into them. Perhaps I was waiting for a more 'academic' text. The book does include some short interviews with researchers and includes a reading list at the end, which is great and I'll probably find what I was looking for in some of them.
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
“The rain will come. When it does it will be bloody. The future will be red-tinted and unknowable, but they will be together. Come to me now. Hold me.”
That last quote in Alison Rumfitt's Tell Me I'm Worthless made me cry. What do we do when fascism, hate and transphobia is everywhere? We say we love each other, we stay together and we march.
Thomas Page McBee: Amateur (2018)
"From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with 'hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love' (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling …
Cheryl Strayed: Wild (2013, Vintage Books)
A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman …
