I’ve been into the millennial crashout memoir genre this year, which is to say that I read both Lindy West’s heartrending polyamory memoir, Adult Braces (which I reviewed here), and Lena Dunham’s Famesick, an account of her cultural rise, which unfolded alongside her steep descent into chronic illness.
I’m going to do some shorter posts that are a bit more speculative in nature, taking on some dynamics I’ve observed—or think I’ve observed—and welcoming feedback.
I’ll be sharing some things I cut from my manuscript when I axed 15,000 words… this was to illustrate the point that many of gender medicine’s problems are not at all unique to the field, just taken to an extreme.
In Do Not Go Gentle, acclaimed writer and philosopher Kathleen Stock tackles one of the great debates of our time: should we set up a system of assisted death?