Kia Sconiers’s Reviews > Vantage Points: On Media as Trans Memoir > Status Update

“McLuhan understands housing as a media of communication because it “shapes and rearranges the patterns of human association of community.””

ohhhhh he just CLOCKED racist football fans

“I find comfort in the simplicity of this summary, as it avoids the terror of her unfolding adolescence.”

“Poet Bhanu Kapil asks, “who was responsible for the suffering of your mother?”

“it’s easier to believe the american dream when it’s packaged as song and dance.”

“would it be possible to become a man and yet resist the reiteration of these violent patterns and permissions?”
- on anxiety of transitioning

I believe so!

“as a young girl, I learned that white, hegemonic masculinity was produced and maintained by a series of ongoing choices, a way of thinking and doing without consequences.”

I’m really loving this book! The writing is a bit disjointed but it presents as if it’s SUPPOSED to be read that way…. love it truly.

“finding women in the past does not, in and of itself, constitute a feminist gesture.”

OH EXACTLY

“McLuhan defines respectability as the “ability to sustain visual inspection of one’s life.”