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Fantastic. This was written in 1997 but felt very relevant to 2018 queer life in terms of cultivating expansive attitudes toward orientation and gender.
A very interesting, sort of folksy collection of queer theory essays. Leans more toward the personal than the academic which is always a plus for me. A really good place to start an exploration of gender/sexuality fluidity.Possibly out of print....if you really want to read it and you know me, I will lend you my copy. But you'll have to swear to guard it with your life! :)
even with some of the language being dated and nothing said being anything i didn't already know, this book is what i want from a queer nonfiction/essay collection, because it's the epitome of genderfuck and whatever the sexuality equivalent of that is.content/trigger warnings; discussions of homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia, transphobia, d slur, f slur, n slur, sex, abuse, incest, racism, lesbian separatism, intracommunity issues, aids, death, loss of loved one, suicidal ideation,some quotes:"...
I need to read more books like this. Reading this book was like falling into someone's arms, or taking a warm bath. Reminded me that it's okay to be messy and outside of the boxes. Reading books like this helps me break down the labels until they dissolve into people.
It starts off feeling less like a necessary read in a world steeped in very vague and often weaponized post-modern thought, and there are times it reeks of…WELP just looked it up! All these authors are white! And that’s why. It’s palpably myopic in this way. One of the authors acts like they HAVE to write the n-word to prove something about power words have. Bad piece !It had a lot of good reminders, and maybe a couple important realizations for me, and it helps to read if you yourself need vali...
A product of its time that opened up my eyes to a myriad of queer writings; one of the best anthologies I’ve read thus far. Was easy to set down between authors and pick back up again with the switch of a topic, though some subject matters felt like they were not reflective of a modern take to queerness (though, to be fair, Pomosexual’s entirety stands to defy the very definition of queerness). Overall a great read with absolutely lovely editing and intro.
This book was likely a golden book for its time (in the 1990s). However. as a 2017 reader, you can definitely tell it's dated. (such as through the use of some terminology found in the book). The book is essentially a book that begins to dive into understanding the concept of pomosexuality (which is coined by this book), but majority of it is made up of different snippets of life stories from different people exploring their own sexuality, that wouldn't fit "typically" LGBT+ labels (bisexual, ga...
kate bornstein was correct in saying this book would change how i view things, as cliche as that may sound. i have always rejected the terms gay/lesbian/bisexual because the notion of there only being two genders (XX, XY, XO, XXY, XXO, etc. being various "common" chromosomal orders though the anomalies are dubbed as "syndromes") seems alien to me. however, along with my queer self-identity, i have a tendency to carry, "i like female bodied people because of their female bodies and i like male bo...
Very graphic, much more than what I usually read, but very good. I loved the exploration into confusion, bisexuality, and fluidity. A short read, but very mentally taxing.
About the ways in which individual sexual identity does not fit perfectly into the Lesbian/Gay, Straight, or Bisexual catagories created (and also some about gender being non-binary). It is a wonderful explanation through personal experiences and analysis as to why folks might identify as Queer, Pansexual, or not at all as a way to specifically choose not to identify as gay or bi.Much of what it covers has become a such a part of my day to day life that I might not have found it very enlightenin...
