A Safe Girl to Love

While this book attempts to convey the diversity of transfeminine experience, it doesn't quite get there. The author seemed to have an incapacity to write outside of their own experience. (Like I'm pretty sure that transfeminine individuals do not universally work in book stores, attend university i......more

You'd think that with how much I read this would be old hat by now, but I always get a little bit anxious when a friend publishes something. What if it isn't good? What if I don't like it? How do you walk that line between supporting their work and wanting to be honest about your opinion of their wo......more

4 Stars for A Safe Girl to date (audiobook) by Casey Plett read by the author. It was interesting getting to hear the author’s perspective as a trans woman going through life. This book is about several of her experiences with family and friends as she tries to fit in.......more

I’ll need to reflect more on this, but for now: A brutally honest look into the trans perspective (well, a white trans experience). Some of these stories were far too similar to one another, but I did think the second half of the collection was a lot stronger than the first (things changed up a bit)......more

A short fiction collection. My favourite was the Equality Manifesto— it was short and the satirical tone was pitch perfect. In the other stories a blurry succession of tall girls wake up hungover and then, again, drink too much. So blurry. Despite everything tall girl never goes to AA or reaches out......more