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"The question, then, might be not what do female masculinities borrow from male masculinities, but rather what do men borrow from butches?"

A recommendation from my co-worker who I have kind of a two-man book club going with. This feels like a good follow-up to "Sex Variant Women In Literature", which I read earlier this year. Excited about this one.

Thanks for cracking open my consciousness again, Clarice

When in doubt, Clarice

God I wish I’d had a copy of this when I was like 13. I’m usually more of a purple prose enjoyer, but the straightforward style made this feel so immediate and personal. I’m glad I was familiar with Feinberg’s life and activism before going in, because otherwise many moments in here would have felt very “and then everybody clapped”. But ze was really about it.

Much has been said about the brutality in this novel, but it was the soft squishy parts that really broke me. I had to put the book down and lie down many times.

It feels like a diary, a condensed history, an indictment, and a mirror all at once. This really nestled into my heart, I already know I’m going to re-read it in a few years’ time. A salve for my little outsider heart.

This play is all I can think about since devouring it in a sitting. I have a lot of feelings about this, none of which I’m ready to articulate, but suffice to say this really spoke to me. The more I read about the myths preceding the events in the play the more obsessed I become. This has the feeling of an epic but is so thoroughly distilled down to an emotional core. Also god this activates my feminine rage. I can see why Courtney Love once claimed that this play helped inspire the name “Hole”