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A review by 11corvus11
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
5.0
This is one of my favorite queer anthologies. It had been on my wishlist for some time and I finally got a hold of a copy.
I found myself relating to things in this more than I expected and being made to think more than I expected. I'm a trans person who's read somewhere along the lines of butch dyke, what is that, or strange gay guy and I've also found myself feeling lonely in different LGBT communities, even radical and queer ones.
Some essay ripped my heart out and others put it back.
P.S. I also felt my knee hit the table hard when I got to the correctional officer essay. I went on to read the wuthor's bio as a FORMER CO and that made me think more. I believe that essay was trying to show us a complicated world outside radical politics and analysis where cis men together in prison interact in ways that can be read as gay, and how women and authoritarianism fit into that equation.
I found myself relating to things in this more than I expected and being made to think more than I expected. I'm a trans person who's read somewhere along the lines of butch dyke, what is that, or strange gay guy and I've also found myself feeling lonely in different LGBT communities, even radical and queer ones.
Some essay ripped my heart out and others put it back.
P.S. I also felt my knee hit the table hard when I got to the correctional officer essay. I went on to read the wuthor's bio as a FORMER CO and that made me think more. I believe that essay was trying to show us a complicated world outside radical politics and analysis where cis men together in prison interact in ways that can be read as gay, and how women and authoritarianism fit into that equation.