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grayjay's review against another edition
4.0
Benaway writes about her experience as a transwoman, about transition, about sex and pleasure. She uses the spaces between words to convey such complicated and layered problems, hurts, loves, and ways of being. I love when poetry does that.
bookishmillennial's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
disclaimer: I don’t really give starred reviews. I hope my reviews provide enough information to let you know if a book is for you or not. Find me here: https://linktr.ee/bookishmillennial
This was another absolutely staggering account / lived experience of a Anishinaabe and Métis trans woman. I found myself having to pause every few pages because Benaway's words were so boldly honest and pulled no punches. She writes in a jarring yet subdued way, and it's so incredibly admirable! I will continue to seek out her work and highly recommend others do so too.
Check trigger warnings below and take care while reading.
This was another absolutely staggering account / lived experience of a Anishinaabe and Métis trans woman. I found myself having to pause every few pages because Benaway's words were so boldly honest and pulled no punches. She writes in a jarring yet subdued way, and it's so incredibly admirable! I will continue to seek out her work and highly recommend others do so too.
Check trigger warnings below and take care while reading.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Rape, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Colonisation
lsparrow's review against another edition
5.0
I loved these poems. One of those books where I feel anything I would write as a review would feel too cliche and really all I want to do is reread these poems.
emelynreads's review against another edition
I'm torn about supporting this author. It's possible to believe growing up you're a certain nationality but finding out later in life you aren't. It's not okay to deliberately claim nationality for personal gain then shed it once it no longer serves you. I would not forgive someone cosplaying race like Rachel Dolezal but I'm not convinced this author had ill intent based on her apology in response to the indigenous call out posted in 2020.
Gwen's statement:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/18_fy3xCYFO2S_P50gbab2j2rMFuvuOnG3W6UUvlOjZk
Gwen's statement:
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/18_fy3xCYFO2S_P50gbab2j2rMFuvuOnG3W6UUvlOjZk
rach_fornow's review against another edition
emotional
sad
slow-paced
These poems were very beautiful and very sad. I would read again but with the awareness that the struggle with self hatred in this book is very present.
kirbyworming's review against another edition
Read the whole collection and started to write a review for TMD only to do minor research & find out that Gwen Benaway’s claims of an indigenous identity were called into question /proved fraudulent … so, don’t pick this one up friends
lillianhpearce's review against another edition
Read the whole collection and started to write a review for TMD only to do minor research & find out that Gwen Benaway’s claims of an indigenous identity were called into question /proved fraudulent … so, don’t pick this one up friends