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Lux “Ask Me About Self-Managed Abortion” Alptraum Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Lux Alptraum is an author, sex educator and podcast host. Author, podcaster, bon vivant: https://t.co/n6aeXb1wYK. Peabody nominee. Literally OCD. Also on Bluesky at @luxalptraum.com Avi: @TheCovatar she/her

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Book Cover for: Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible, Expanded Edition, Linda Williams

Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible, Expanded Edition

Linda Williams
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I have zero interest in "sex scene discourse" but I will say that @ShineLouise about a line that I think comes from Hard Core by Linda Williams about how sex scenes are in some ways equivalent to a musical number in a musical

Paperback, 1999

$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters
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The writing on sex with men that I tend to relate to the most is by trans women; Detransition Baby had some sex scenes that felt super relatable to me, there’s also a @HarronWawker essay I’m gonna try to find in a sec that I really saw myself in.

Paperback, 2021

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid
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I’m reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and the story is great so far but some of the writing is so unbelievably clunky, *especially* when it’s touching on race and queerness

Paperback, 2018

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, Janet Mock

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Janet Mock
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About a decade ago — I think in 2014 — a friend and I went to a reading somewhere downtown. We were both mostly there because we wanted to hear Janet Mock speak (this is why I think it was 2014; that's when Redefining Realness was dubbed), but of course she was one of many folks.

Paperback, 2014

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, Dara Horn

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn
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People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn. It’s imperfect — esp because of Horn’s uncritical Zionism — but the good bits are phenomenal. https://t.co/YZ5ieBUGvm

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi
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Kicking myself that You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty was sitting in my house for nearly a year before I finally read it but on the other hand I feel like I read it at exactly the perfect time, truly resonated with my current life in some ways https://t.co/FaIm2x7Nhc

Paperback, 2023

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