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On display in the library as it‘s Pride month. Interesting read.

I loved it. Accessible for teen readers but adult readers will also get a lot from this too. Orto is intersex and lives in Nigeria, forced to live as a boy and hide his shameful secret, Lori, the girl he is meant to be.

A lot of bad things happen in this book but they are handled with great sensitivity, in a way that is not traumatising to the reader. There is a lot of hope and beauty to balance the negative, with touches of magical realism.

Arai discusses many gender and sexuality topics related to aging that I haven't always thought about. He especially talks about issues he experiences as an intersex person who was assigned female at birth, always felt more masculine, and found out he's intersex and has physical masculine and feminine characteristics that clash with social expectations. #LGBTQ #Intersex #Manga #NonfictionComic #LGBTQIA

This book contains 30 essays, about a 3rd from the editor herself, on the joy that comes from being trans, non-binary, and intersex. I found this very affecting and illuminating. I‘m not familiar with non-binary and intersex and some of the most fascinating essays came from them. One was about Non-B parenting, one was a trans man being voted prom-king. One was a trans woman being part of the sisterhood on a woman‘s roller derby team. All great.

In bed sick with COVID. Perfect excuse to treat myself to a new book.

Happy New Year! Welcome to the #FRC2023 The 25 prompts just manage to squeeze onto a bingo card. You can tag me to submit entries, and if you put your book in the same spot on the bingo card, I'll know that's an entry, or you can make individual posts and mention the prompt! All the shareables, printables, and ways to enter are on the blog.

The tagged book is a just one option of many for “A book by a trans and/or intersex author“.

I wanted a light fiction break from Nonfiction November, and this did the trick.

It‘s YA, a coming of age story about a princess who goes undercover to have a summer as a normal person. It‘s a world where 18 year olds attend “coming-of-age” type balls and a computer can tell you who would be a good genetic match for you.

I probably wouldn‘t have finished if I weren‘t curious how the #LGBTQIA thread would play out. It‘s a light pick for me.

My #bookspin book. (Note to self: write the numbers down! I have to comb the past posts every month to remember which book was which.)

A kind of disappointing end to the trilogy. I felt the author was trying to cram too much plot in while leaving a lot of questions unexplored. And the prose was oddly flat and unexciting for such an action-packed story.

I took a long, excellent bike ride this morning, with a couple stop offs at IKEA so I could buy a new library bag and get a free coffee. The coffee went down easy alongside HERCULINE BARBIN, the memoir of an intersex person who lived in the mid-1800s. So far, it‘s interesting but not propulsive.

This is the second book I‘ve read by E. K. Johnston and the second one that I didn‘t feel lived up to my expectations. I did like The Afterward a lot, but I couldn‘t quite bring myself to continue with this one when I had 4 other ebook holds come in this weekend.