A review by lilysendroff
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

Combination of theory and memoir, muddies the binary of transgressive and normative through reflections on queerness, motherhood, pregnancy, and family. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, and Stalking

Moderate: Addiction and Sexism

Minor: Abortion

Frequent mentions of Buddhism, reference to a theorist who makes questionable claims about being pregnant with mixed children as a white woman, and naming their child with a Native American name are all aspects of the books that entirely fail to interrogate the role whiteness, which is both jarring and disappointing.