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Ell

cincodenada@bookwyrm.cincodenada.com

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

Admin of bookwyrm.cincodenada.com, as you might expect. Endlessly curious engineer; something approaching, say, genderqueer. Third rhyme with dactyl feet: it goes here.

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Stone Butch Blues (Paperback, 2004, Alyson Publications) No rating

Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as …

I'm deeply impressed and also a little sad about how relevant this book is that even nearly thirty years after its publication and fifty years after its setting. There's so much more space for people like me to exist than there has been, space this book helped create and which I am endlessly grateful for, and yet the core struggles around gender and identity are strikingly similar, even as someone who's going in a different direction. Really incredible work.

Stone Butch Blues (Paperback, 2004, Alyson Publications) No rating

Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as …

I've reached the part of the where the protagonist's gender has migrated far enough that it overlaps my experience in unexpected, reflected ways, and it's giving me things to think about over here. Gender is a big ol' mess, y'all!

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (2019, Ignota Books) No rating

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin tells the …

Science fiction properly concieved, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast stack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

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