Reviews

Pass with Care: Memoirs by Cooper Lee Bombardier

agmaynard's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

Well done! Memoir, essay/reportage, performance, poem. From the last paragraph: “Our duty as trans people writing memoir in this time is to resist and reject narrative forms and chronologies that limit the diversity of our multivalent bodies and lives. For this to work, we have to write fearlessly and non-didactically, and expect our non-trans readers to grab a handrail and to hold on for the ride.” Recommmended!

scrow1022's review against another edition

3.0

A book I felt I ought to want, ought to admire, and there's a lot of good, useful stuff in there... but mostly I felt the lessons were ones I was getting elsewhere and the language didn't particularly speak to me, so not a book I needed to keep as reference nor particularly wanted the energy of.

But what a change from five years ago even, that there are enough trans-masc memoirs to not feel beholden to each and every one of them.

caedocyon's review against another edition

3.0

The last essay is on how trans memoir needs to evolve, and he's very right about that! This one isn't as far along as that unfortunately.

fr0gsonmushrooms's review against another edition

I had to DNF this. I started skimming through almost immediately. 

I think I'm just not a fan of the writing style and just wasn't in the mood for another memoir. With all the good reviews I think I just need to leave it for another time. 

I'll pick it back up one day.

wafer's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.5

A good hurt

jp_riemersma's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

howard's review against another edition

just not vibing with the writing style. this one’s not for me.

courtzconnor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

meganmilks's review against another edition

5.0

This collection of essays spans a long swath of trans time, offering some historicizing of SF and NM in the 90s and early oughts, including dyke/transmasc tensions and a reckoning with past relationships and an inheritance of familial violence. Honestly so much here, a lot of life lived and hard-won lessons learned. The essay on accountability and problematic accountability processes was probably my favorite; I loved a lot else too—the essay on new trans memoir is terrific. Much clear-sighted wisdom to be found here and Bombardier’s image-rich writing is humbly excellent.

stevenrowe's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0