Joseph-Kass Tomaras Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Joseph-Kass Tomaras

Reading the title story of Mariana Enriquez' collection "Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego," on a day that started with me being targeted by transphobic and misogynistic abuse, has left me ill-disposed toward cis men in general.

Joseph-Kass Tomaras

"Divorce, not unlike adolescence, leaves its subjects adrift in the caprices of a phase, alert to guidance from lives already lived." https://t.co/9HyYycfMLA

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"He was too moronic to be properly self-loathing--so it was my duty to loathe him instead." - Jonathan Lethem, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN

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"She laughed, although I couldn't tell whether it was earnest or the laugh cis people give when they relate successfully with a trans woman: the *oh you're human!* laugh." - Jeanne Thornton, SUMMER FUN

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"Perhaps we could show how it feels to travel through time with a complicated gender, including the ways our past selves ripple into our present selves." - Hazel Jane Plante, ANY OTHER CITY

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Choking to death on a pumpernickel bagel because I was reading Allie Brosh's SOLUTIONS AND OTHER PROBLEMS while eating it and Spouse and the Kids are at a neighbor's house and the uncontrollable laughter led me to inhale half-masticated lunch, that would've been very embarrassing

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Kid 1: Time to go back to reading THE BELL JAR. Me: Should your mother and I be concerned? Kid 1: No. Why? Me: You know how Sylvia Plath died. Kid 1: Yes, she committed suicide. Mom and I already discussed this.