Literature
BitchReads: 17 Books You Should Read in June
Summer is an ideal time to read a good, engrossing book. Here are Bitch’s picks for June.
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Iced Out: Blair Braverman on Gender, Trauma, and the Dual Realities of Life in the Arctic
When I began reading Blair Braverman’s memoir, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, I knew I would love it because it chronicled her life as a dog musher and her adventures in the Arctic.
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Nerve Endings Signals New Beginnings for Trans Erotica: Tobi Hill-Meyer Transforms Narratives in Trans Erotic Lit
In Tobi Hill-Meyer’s anthology collection, Nerve Endings: The New Trans Erotic, 30 writers set out to create a new way to think about transgender erotica by grounding the genre in how trans people actually have sex.
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Sages, Villains, and Seers: Mapping Disability in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Bodies and minds will always be rooted in a sociopolitical context, and it is that context that privileges one type of body and one type of mind over all others.
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Disability is Not a Deficit and Other Truths in an Ableist World: A Review of Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure
What would our lives, movements, and communities look like if we moved towards restoration, not cure?
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Street of Miracles: In Kai Cheng Thom's New Novel, Trans Femmes of Color Save Each Other
Thom maps the Street of Miracle’s inter-community contours, where there’s sisterhood, protection, and deep love—and also jealousy, internalized oppression, political differences, different amounts of privilege, and lovers quarrels.
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Champagne, Sequins, and Male Tears: "Z" Season One Roundtable for Two
Z follows the Fitzgeralds through their bumpy marriage, their flapper-artist lifestyle, and party after party after party.
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Pop Culture Prepared Me: The Trumpocalypse
So glad yet horrified that pop culture prepared me for these terrible, horrible, no-good, very-bad, troubled dystopian horror times!
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Going Green: Writer Mariko Tamaki Takes the Hulk Franchise into Uncharted Territory
Not only is a woman now taking center stage as Hulk, stepping into a role that has always been a symbol of superheroic masculinity, her trauma and internalized anger is at the heart of the story.
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