A review by ominousevent
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary, by J.T. LeRoy, Raven Kaldera, Robin Maltz, Joan Nestle, Kristen Walker, Sylvia Rivera, Peggy Munson, Chino Lee Chung, Sonya Bolus, Debbie Fraker, Barb Greve, C. Jacob Hale, Stacey Montgomery, Gordene MacKenzie, Aaron Link, Hilda Raz, Carrie Davis, Toni Amato, Wally Baird, Clare Howell, Loree Cook-Daniels, Ethan Zimmerman, Mollie Biewald, Allie Lie, L. Maurer, Susan Wright, Cheryl Chase, Rusty Mae Moore, Allen James, Riki Anne Wilchins, Dawn Dougherty, Lucas Dzmura, Nancy Nangeroni, Gina Reiss

3.0

Ergh. Some of the pieces in this book were great! Some of them really weren't! A lot of it was confronting and difficult to read … which can be good, but isn't always. Sometimes it was just difficult because it was transphobic as hell. Kind of upsetting to find that kind of thing in a book like this. (And I'm not talking about the language choices etc that date the book – current discourse may have moved on and in many cases disavowed the language used here, but that's a thing that happens and it's fine.) (The book is pretty dated, though, in more than just its language.)

Seriously mixed feelings overall.