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Mustered up the courage to read some of the trans fiction (it can’t all be history and theory ;() and fuck me. Shit is crushing, it’s really brutal to have an author put your exact thoughts on a page. It’s great to be spoken to via literature, but Christ it’s intense sometimes. Will still be reading
Some of em I do like and Im glad I read but its hard to recommend. Like Manhunt... wanna feel sad? Well have I got the book for you. Yet, I genuinely enjoyed it and thought it was important for me to have read. Tell Me Im Worthless, Moonflow, Nevada - actually I guess most of my Trans Lit ™️ is horror based lol
I would like some trans lit thats less horrific and more optimistic.
Like I need a book to feel sad
I don’t love the horror tbh! I understand Why it’s written, turns out I just take the feelings to heart and that’s not enjoyable for me (yet)
What books?
Finished both books of When You Fell From Heaven in 4 work days, the authors other work was recommended to me when I asked for recs in the mega a bit ago. Let me find the link
Found where I asked it
https://hexbear.net/comment/6915480
Shoutout to @peanutbuttercupola@hexbear.net and @bolshevikLovelace@hexbear.net for recommending Alyson Greaves, love what little I've read so far
You're the best! The perfect list, I started Dorley today
i'm so glad you liked WYFFH, it's so so so good. i'm loving the few chapters released of book 3 too. struggling hard with waiting for new ones though
I had to switch for now, going to put off book 3 as long as I can by starting more of her work!
I should read some of these ...
What do you like in books? Were you eyeballing the fiction or nonfiction?
Oh you were posting about those Chinese web novels! So WYFFH does begin with an egg being forced to cross dress through circumstance but obviously ends up being way more affirming than the initial premise implies. Then it’s a cute cheerleader romance!
A mix of both.
Uh ... this is hard to answer but I should read books of all types.
Real, I also should read more and turns out trans stuff is a good hook for me. I said in the post way back when, Feinberg and Serrano were good starting points for non-fiction theory type stuff. Trans/Rad/Fem was also good NF and very current iirc. For fiction I’ve become hopelessly addicted to the work of Alyson Greaves, they feels like books I would have read as a teenager if I had known…
That is my current hyperfixation yes.
Sounds fun. I've read some force-femme but actually she was trans all along stuff before.
Force femme but trans is the speciality of hers from what I’m learning