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caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review against another edition
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Well, I didn't really like this. Damn, I hate when I get sent a book to review for my blog and I don't like it. I never know if it's better to write an honest review or not write a review at all.
Mostly I just didn't feel any connection or reaction to the language; it didn't really feel like poetry to me, it just felt like ho-hum prose broken into lines. I was also annoyed politically by some stuff, namely the book declaring it's about "gay and lesbian" history when that erases the bi, trans, and intersex people that actually show up in the book. Also, the depiction of the only young queer person as an apolitical person who doesn't know anything about queer history rubbed me the wrong way. It felt ageist. Like, I know a shit ton of queer and trans youth doing amazing political work. What about Morgan M Page's podcast on trans history? What about the BLM founders? Why aren't people like that in the book?
More thoughts here on my blog.
Mostly I just didn't feel any connection or reaction to the language; it didn't really feel like poetry to me, it just felt like ho-hum prose broken into lines. I was also annoyed politically by some stuff, namely the book declaring it's about "gay and lesbian" history when that erases the bi, trans, and intersex people that actually show up in the book. Also, the depiction of the only young queer person as an apolitical person who doesn't know anything about queer history rubbed me the wrong way. It felt ageist. Like, I know a shit ton of queer and trans youth doing amazing political work. What about Morgan M Page's podcast on trans history? What about the BLM founders? Why aren't people like that in the book?
More thoughts here on my blog.
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