Tobi's review
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
by Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel
Tobi's review
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality by Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel
Tobi's review
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bookshelves:
sexandculture
recommended for: Queers
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 enlightening if I first read it today. However, when I did read it, it was incredibly formative of my personal identity development. And even reading it more recently, I find it to be full of good stories and useful to trace how the ways people have represented such perspectives have changed. And the fact that it seems less revolutionary today than it did when I first read it seems to be more indicative of how what it is about is so incredibly significant and has spread rapidly through queer commun...more
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 enlightening if I first read it today. However, when I did read it, it was incredibly formative of my personal identity development. And even reading it more recently, I find it to be full of good stories and useful to trace how the ways people have represented such perspectives have changed. And the fact that it seems less revolutionary today than it did when I first read it seems to be more indicative of how what it is about is so incredibly significant and has spread rapidly through queer commun...more
