On Larissa Glasser’s F4
Larissa Glasser’s F4 is filthy, bizarre, ultra-violent, and hyper-(trans-)sexual, and I’m sure it’s meant to be all those things.
Author: Odile Aurora
Self-love #1: conquering ‘narcissism’
A requiem for a man that’s not in my life anymore.
The List
There’s a list, and on the 20th of November, that list gets read (aloud) by many trans people around the world, in remembrance of their departed siblings. #TDoR2018
The Pseudo-Hysterical Female Man
The Female Man wants very badly to be a hysterical novel, but by design, and not spontaneously, it flails about in its confusion, hurting not just itself but the reader as well.
The Symbolic Order of Life and Manhood
The circle of manhood is at the center of the circle of life, which is bound by death.
1001 books
Like my own Shahrazad, I’ve told myself 1,001 stories to keep myself distracted from (doing) bad things.
Too Political
I was banned from my local trans organisation for being too political. As you might expect, I have some thoughts on that.
On Borges’ Collected Fictions
The ugly, The bad, The good, The list™
Shadow of the Future
My translation: Edith Södergran - “Framtidens skugga” (1920)
On The Narrow Land
Although I already had a pretty positive opinion of Vance based on ‘Lyonesse’, ‘The Narrow Land’ surprised me with a couple of really good tales.