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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 5m

Coming off the heels of reading a bunch of ebooks in a row, it feels so damn nice to have a physical book in my hands 🥰

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Maddy "Boo!" Hare @mbhare.bsky.social · 9m

awesome AWESOME thread

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Jennie June

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 7m

Guys you'll never believe it but I'm reading a book 😮

I haven't heard much about this cut from @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift, which is surprising cause it looks incredible!

Trans femme futures abolitionist ethics for transfemjnist worlds

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victoria zeller (buy ONE OF THE BOYS) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 1h

not me i'm built different

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

I always knew my inability to whistle had to mean something....

ing school, generally all by myself. I spent a large part of my time in the house singing, but have never been able to learn to whistle. Inability to whistle is a general char- acteristic of passive inverts. I learned to sew and
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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · Sep 11

Without culture we die. We cease to be human. We are at war and those are the stakes.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · Sep 11

Make art with your friends. Organize an underground show. Buy tapes and zines from friends and strangers. Support each other. Culture is made by regular people living their lives and finding ways to connect, and capitalists can never own that.

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Isobel Bess @echosequence.space · Sep 11

It's hard to disconnect yourself from capitalist pseudoculture, but it's more important now than ever. Spotify is replacing your playlists with corporate muzak. Harry Potter shit is being churned out by the same people who own Batman and The Sopranos. They want to kill the human capacity for art.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 13h

I absolutely agree that it's fun, I just wish the space had more critical depth.

Daniel Greene is one of the only Booktubers I've ever watched who actually dives deeper into the genre and industry concerns...

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

I love Cindy lol, but she definitely also falls into the trap of just endlessly dumping on BookTok slop.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

😭

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

I asked for indie booktuber recs under the quoted post and literally nobody responded lmao

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

You search for "trans books" on YouTube and you get a bunch of short rec lists and that's basically it. @sollizyy.bsky.social working alone out here...

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

See I say things like this and then I proceed to watch three back-to-back videos tearing down terrible TikTok romances and a two-hour ranking of everything Shakespeare ever wrote 😔

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

Today's activity has been my yearly reminder that 90% of Booktube is white men in black turtlenecks with Serious Opinions on Dostoyevsky and white women in front of aesthetic bookshelves talking about why Colleen Hoover is bad.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 14h

yeah i block anyone who talks or “jokes” about picking up guns or inciting violence when i post about protests or anything else.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 14h

I have fucking had it with the edgelord leftists who quote post my shit with incitements to violence, like I'm sorry either you're the fucking feds or you're somehow even dumber than they are.

the frogs & the wine moms are doing 100x the work y'all are by dooming and posting nonsense.

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

It took her around two decades to get it published, and she discusses how she was adding to and editing it over that time.

Not unusual for 20th century trans lit - Louise Lawrence's memoir was never published, and obviously Roz's Tiny Pieces of Skull was written in 1987 but pubbed in 2015.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 15h

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 15h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

Gatekeeping is stupid, the trans community is big, and transfeminism is a practice, not an identity label.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

100% yes.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

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Rainbow @rainbowlesbiab.bsky.social · 2d

Hewwo! I wrote some words again! Like, 35k of them (don't ask how, I have no clue) and now they're up as part of the Autumn Secret Lair Bundle! If you like secret identity drama, magical girls, gay women, and villainous beans too pure for this world, you'll probably like it!

itch.io/b/3327/stwl-...

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

TL;DR this book is incredible, but it was also written 120 years ago.

Comparable to the messy legacy of Conundrum IMO.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

She also spends a bunch of time in the last act sleeping around with soldiers on an unnamed "reservation" and the implications of that are, uh, in need of further interrogation. Especially knowing that she saw her calling as a missionary.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

Like yeah, obviously the book written in the 19th Century is gonna be dated.

Doesnt change the fact that June calls Chinese immigrants "repulsive" and spends a fair amount of time fantasizing about doing missionary work to the "uncivilized" people of the global south.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

My thoughts upon finish are somewhat conflicted (there's some racist elements and other extremely dated messy parts that need further consideration) but I'm gonna give it a few days to marinate before I write a full review.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15h

Love it or hate it, this should be required reading for *any* student of contemporary trans literature or history. What a remarkable book.

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

Alright I need a short story break before I dive back into another gargantuan anthology, so let's read one of the oldest transfemme books I'm aware of!

Autobiography of an Androgyne is one of the earliest "trans memoirs," published a solid 15 years before the commonly cited 'first' trans memoir.

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