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“I am done living in a world where women are lied to about their bodies; where women are objects of sexual desire but not subjects of sexual pleasure; where sex is used as a weapon against women; and where women believe their bodies are broken, simply because those bodies are not male. And I am done living in a world where women are trained from birth to treat their bodies as the enemy.”

Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

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CBR Bingo – Sex I started reading this book in December. I finished reading it in July and began this review in August. And I’m here today to finally get it to the finish line. What has taken me so long? This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill book review procrastination, nay, I have a confession to make. I am 41 years old, and I am super duper uncomfortable talking about sex. But I finally bit the bullet and posted a reel review to Instagram where it […]

CBR15 Bingo: Picture This

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kokabe

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CBR15 Bingo: Picture This (can also be used for Queer Lives) Official book description: In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to […]

Platonic love is love

Common Bonds by Claudie Arsenault

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I was looking for a book about aromantic peoples. And I found a book about aromantic people called Common Bonds. As the publisher description says, this book is “featuring aromantic characters and centering platonic relationships.” The main editors are Claudie Arsenault, C. T. Callahan, B. R. Sanders, and RoAnna Sylver. It is heavy on the fantasy element, or realistic fantasy. Even if the story is more real (college students yapping away in their dorm room or hanging at the local bar) there can be supernatural […]

Trying to find a new read, I found this and a few things about me.

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

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I found out that Simon and Schuster can give you free eBooks! I can now get eBooks through a venue not NetGalley (as I have mentioned my woes with them before) even though I much prefer “the real deal” over online. I knew that most of these titles would not be at my library, and I would not want to own copies, therefore, this was a great way to read them. And when I saw the cover of Tash Hearts Tolstoy (a grumpy Tolstoy starring […]

wikipedia with a wink

Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd

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Peter Ackroyd loves London. He has written novels, histories, poetry, and biographies of the people, places, and things that make (or have made) London, well, London. He approaches history with curiosity, wonder, and with an almost obsessive eye for detail. He criticizes when criticism is needed, and he allows facts and stories to breath and speak on their own without editorializing. Queer City, his history of gay life in London from the original founders through the current citizens, reaches far back into the history of […]

“It is cause for celebration whenever anyone is, to the best of their ability, making their own choices free from pressure—and also working to change the social and political structures that will let everyone else have that same sexual freedom, and freedom of other kinds, too.”

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society & the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

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Quick review (ha! possible for me?) for a book that’s been holding up my review queue. This was an excellent book about what it means to be asexual, and how we think about sexuality in general. The best thing about it isn’t the way it explains asexuality, or the ace identity (which is extremely varied! as is all sexuality and forms of identity) but the way that it takes that premise and then opens it further. Chen posits that by acknowledging asexuality and striving to […]



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