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> Tag: Sexuality

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

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

June 10, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:167 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, friendship, glbtq, K.E. Ormsbee, Kathryn Ormsbee, romantic asexual, Sexuality, siblings ·
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queer city

wikipedia with a wink

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

January 24, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: audio, British history, European history, gender, historical accounts, lgtbqia, lgtbqia history, London, Peter Ackroyd, queer, queer history, Sexuality, Will Watt

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: audio, British history, European history, gender, historical accounts, lgtbqia, lgtbqia history, London, Peter Ackroyd, queer, queer history, Sexuality, Will Watt ·
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“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

November 24, 2020 by narfna 9 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: ace, Angela Chen, asexual, asexual spectrum, compulsory sexuality, narfna, non fiction, Sexuality

narfna's CBR12 Review No:172 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: ace, Angela Chen, asexual, asexual spectrum, compulsory sexuality, narfna, non fiction, Sexuality ·
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“Seriously, my friend’s daughter is constantly misgendered because she favours clothes with dinosaurs on. EVERYONE KNOWS ALL DINOSAURS WERE BOYS AND THAT’S WHY THEY’RE EXTINCT.”

The Gender Games by Juno Dawson

October 7, 2020 by narfna 4 Comments

Been sitting on this review for two months now, trying to land on a star rating, and how to articulate what I wanted to say. Ultimately, this is a good book that is part memoir and part feminist/social text about being transgender (with a focus on the UK), with some intersectional feminist ideas thrown in. It’s also written in a very colloquial, humorous style that is very much not the norm for these kinds of books. This is what threw me, because I couldn’t decide […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, British, gender, humor, juno dawson, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Sexuality, the gender games, transgender

narfna's CBR12 Review No:139 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, British, gender, humor, juno dawson, LGBTQIA, non fiction, Sexuality, the gender games, transgender ·
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I admit it: I didn’t get it. But then again, I got it like a hot stick between the eyes

Birthright by George Abraham

August 11, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I have maybe 20-25 pages to go in Birthright and cannot finish George Abraham’s poetry collection. This has only happened once before, but that was because I was having a little trouble with the concepts of that other book. That poet had tossed out a lot of current events (just when they were starting to become hot/coming back into our consciousness) and there was a lot to absorb. This time it is for both similar and different reasons. This contradiction is throughout the book for […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: american, family, George Abraham, Middle Eastern, Places, Sexuality, Subjects & Themes

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:253 · Genres: Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: american, family, George Abraham, Middle Eastern, Places, Sexuality, Subjects & Themes ·
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“The moral of that story, I think, is that being poor will kill you.”

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

April 19, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

It happened again. I excitedly picked up a book at the store, rushed it home, then let it sit in a pile for a few months. When I finally opened it days ago I was shocked (and not shocked at all simultaneously, really) that it was an oddly appropriate collection for today’s frightening world. The first page of the book is a quote from poet Elisabeth Hewer, and it lays the roadwork for the furious march within: “god should have made girls lethal when he […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories Tagged With: body horror, carmen maria machado, dark fairy tale, Latinx, law and order SVU, pleasure, queer, Sexuality, womanhood

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Short Stories · Tags: body horror, carmen maria machado, dark fairy tale, Latinx, law and order SVU, pleasure, queer, Sexuality, womanhood ·
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