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A review by solly
Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
challenging
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
4.0
This is my hundredth book of the year!! I started it sooo long ago, I take so long to read non-fiction physical books!
It was excellent though, I learnt some stuff, realized TERFs have been using the same tired arguments for way longer than I thought, and it deepened my pride and determination as a queer activist and LGBT+ centre volunteer. I WISH there were queer history books about French queer history but I can't really find any, so I'll read all the US and UK one instead.
Overall excellent and informative, but the first 40-pages chapter full of definitions made me put it down for a while. It's also very academic so not a *good* time or *fun* time but it's full of information. I knew about a decent number of events mentionned because of assignements I did on US queer history but I still learnt stuff especially since I'm young and it's not my country's politics.
It was excellent though, I learnt some stuff, realized TERFs have been using the same tired arguments for way longer than I thought, and it deepened my pride and determination as a queer activist and LGBT+ centre volunteer. I WISH there were queer history books about French queer history but I can't really find any, so I'll read all the US and UK one instead.
Overall excellent and informative, but the first 40-pages chapter full of definitions made me put it down for a while. It's also very academic so not a *good* time or *fun* time but it's full of information. I knew about a decent number of events mentionned because of assignements I did on US queer history but I still learnt stuff especially since I'm young and it's not my country's politics.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Deadnaming, Hate crime, Homophobia, and Transphobia