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coolfoolmoon 's review for:
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
by C. Riley Snorton
informative
reflective
medium-paced
A book worth buying. It's interesting that for a long while trans people are not even mentioned, because race is the prime marginalization that gender is only created because of. We already can't conform, so like Brockington or his family said, why would we add another marginalization on top of that? We can't help it. We're just born that way. We're just born into a system that tells us we're wrong, cis or trans, just because we're not white. I love the analysis not including trans people for a while, I love the analysis focusing on Black women and how Black women are already a different level of Other, and one of the quotes I pulled (or maybe I just wrote the note as a reminder) "To be a a Black man you must separate from the Black mother." There's just so many poignant observations... I gotta buy this book.
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Confinement, Religious bigotry
Minor: Police brutality, Pregnancy