My aim for this year was to have 25% of my reading be nonfiction. Here's another book to add to that. I bought this book in my favourite bookshop the day I got one of my tattoos done, it was a really lovely day.
This was a really interesting queer history about the concept of "female husbands" a phenomenon from the late 1700s to the 1900s. It was written by a queer person, which I really liked. Usually when people discuss trans masc people in the past, people use "We can't know how they would have identified" to use she/her pronouns for these people, but this author uses that to introduce they/them pronouns, which I much prefer. It was a really interesting look at a history not really looked into it, and I appreciated learning about things.
One thing that stuck with me was the author discussing the only binary that should matter in gender is Happy/Unhappy, and that gender should only matter in how it can make people happy, and I really liked the idea of reframing gender identity in terms of gender euphoria.
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