This book was part of my challenge for myself to read more books from queer perspectives this year. It’s now become one of my favourite books, period.
I feel like this book speaks primarily about identity, queerness, grief and drug use. But, it also explores these in a world where capitalism doesn’t exist any longer, which I found really brought depths to the story in unexpected ways for me.
Chana Porter is a genius and I just cannot express how excellent this short book is.
Mar 19, 2025
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“I discover a journey not identical to my life’s path, and yet blazed with the intimate familiarity of my own lived experience. I locate theory—the way it is lived— in motion and in interconnection. Not hard to understand; hard to live.“
- Leslie Feinberg (10th anniversary edition)
heartwrenching from start to finish. a warm hug for someone like me.
i can’t really criticize the writing of this book, just because it’s the uniqueness and importance of this story that sets it apart. it is a story that absolutely needed to be written. what’s even more amazing is that such simple writing could capture the lived intricacies of gender and sexuality in so many shades.
i had never felt seen like this.
Jan 7, 2025
My debut novel came out last year in the US, UK, and France, and I was struck by the panels/talks where people kept asking me about queer joy. I vouch for queer joy, of course, as a queer AF person whose art/writing delves inward in a cheeky way. BUT I write from the gay abyss, the mix of rage and melancholy that is just as important, valid, and—dare I say—triumphant. The crayon box is important because every single day, love affair, conversation won’t be a joyous corny ass love parade, but a melange of all things brutal and beautiful. So rage against the rainbow machine, loves 🖤
Feb 10, 2025
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this book made me feel all of the things and then some, great read for when you are in a transition period of your life
May 29, 2024
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Normally I feel isolated sitting on the bus, headphones on, but PI just makes me feel more connected to other people
Mar 16, 2025
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I often don’t want to tell people about ‘new’ things I’m doing because I am fearful that I’ll fail, or I won’t follow through, and that I won’t meet my own or others expectations.
But I hate living with that fear or that guilt. it isn’t productive, and it means I don’t get to share the new things that are bringing me joy, so I’ve started telling people about the new stuff I’m doing, because I’d rather people know that I’m taking the leap and that I sometimes fail, than hide that from everyone, including myself.
Mar 21, 2025
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Born This Way World Tour.
Absolute back row nosebleed. The Fame was the first CD I ever owned, I got given it for my birthday in 2008 and played it so much it completely wore out. Gaga gave me a lot of my firsts, and helped me to come to terms with my queerness in a surprisingly healthy way for someone who grew up in the 2000s.
Mar 22, 2025