First of all, I’m putting this note here to remember to unhaul the Kindle books. I’m pretty proud of myself for reading nearly double the Kindle books than the number of books I got, in fact, for the first time in years that I’m under 5000 books on there. If you’re into thrillers, I would suggest the Nathan Grant Series. The author makes a novel from the series available for free, which is how I’ve read the first two so far. The cool thing is that they can be read as a standalone. They are self-published, which is a bonus to me; hopefully, by the time this is up, I will have time to review The American, the first book in the series.
Hey Everyone,
As you know, I’ve been trying a new thing for me, where I share a book I love and provide a free ebook link to it, if possible.
Here’s the book I broke Readathin rules for, which is to read the stuff on your TBR before the start of May. However, I saw it being reviewed on the blog Welcome To The Zoo, and I knew I had to read it, as I mentioned on Wednesday, because I’m struggling with representation. The novel is Trans and Disabled: An Anthology of Identities and Experiences, by many authors and content creators.
One thing that stood out to me right away was the issue of being treated differently or harshly because you are queer and happen to have a disability, which is something I have experienced firsthand. I would be lying if I said some concepts didn’t go over my head. On the other hand, as a cis trans guy, I’m well aware that there is still a lot of the binary and non-binary spectrum I still need to learn.
First Lines:
When Covid-19 started, one of the many challenging things I faced was explaining to (cisgender and/or abled) people why I was scared to end up in a hospital as a trans and disabled person with a non-English accent who was, to add the cherry on top, not yet a citizen in the country where I lived. This was before tests and vaccines. When we were being told loudly that “we” had nothing to worry about because only “the disabled and the elderly” risked dying. Those of us who were both disabled and trans didn’t need to explain this to one another. We knew that if it came to not enough respirators, our lives might be viewed as (more) disposable. We knew that when the media said “we,” we were not included. Many Indigenous, Black, Brown and Asian folks knew this too, of course, whether they were trans and/or disabled themselves or not, because they too are usually not part of the “we” that the media refers to when talking about the “general population.”
Goodreads Blurb:
To be trans and disabled means to have experienced harassment, discrimination, loneliness, often poverty, to have struggled with feeling unworthy of love.
To be trans and disabled means experiencing ableism within our trans communities and transphobia within our disabled communities.
To be trans and disabled means to love our fellow trans and disabled people harder than we could ever love ourselves.
This anthology brings together vulnerable stories, poems, plays, drawings, and personal essays. They explore how we make sense of ourselves, our intersections of identities and experiences, of how we are treated, and how much love we are capable of, sometimes even for ourselves.
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Alex
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