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Alan Cumming recommended Five on a Treasure Island: Book 1 in Books (curated)

 
Five on a Treasure Island: Book 1
Five on a Treasure Island: Book 1
Enid Blyton, Eileen Soper | 2015 | Children
8.0 (3 Ratings)
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"I grew up reading the Famous Five books, and recently I reread the first one and was shocked to realize it contains the first trans person I ever encountered, and also how much its almost fetishistic description of food had everything to do with the rationing that Britain was ensuring at the time. Lashings and lashing of ginger beer!"

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Ross (3284 KP) rated The Boys Volume 9: Big Ride in Books

Oct 31, 2019  
The Boys Volume 9: Big Ride
The Boys Volume 9: Big Ride
Garth Ennis | 2011 | Comics & Graphic Novels
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8.0 (2 Ratings)
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Exposition ahoy!
Hughie is back from his sabbatical and contemplating rejoining The Boys in their crusade against capes. He spends some time with Colonel Mallory, the man who set The Boys up in the first place, and learns more about the history of corrupt corporation Vought American, and their attempts to use superheroes in the military.
Meanwhile, one of the Seven, Jack from Jupiter, is being framed for the murder of a trans prostitute. This story was harder to read, because of the language used by Butcher in speaking to and about the trans people.
Things are starting to come to a head, and it feels like Ennis has his eyes on the finish line, and is now putting in all the back story and setting up the inevitable conflict.
  
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Laverne Cox recommended Confessions Of A Sex Kitten in Books (curated)

 
Confessions Of A Sex Kitten
Confessions Of A Sex Kitten
Eartha Kitt | 1991 | Biography, Music & Dance
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"Confessions Of A Sex Kitten was so major. Eartha Kitt is a huge possibility idol for me. The thing about women like Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne, and Diahann Carroll — these black artists in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s — they were making a way out of no way. Eartha’s book, the first paragraph of it I was bawling. It’s just so deep! Her love life I can so relate to as a trans woman. She dated a lot of white men, who dated her privately. They would neverdate her openly or marry her. That’s something I can certainly relate to as a trans woman. She is brilliant and amazing and sexy and smart and political! She was blacklisted for like 10 years. Eartha Kitt is everything, may she rest in peace."

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