The Argonauts

I fucking hate liberals07-19

The self-absorption! I’m! So! Fed up! 70 pages in! Of course, it’s never not a good time to interrogate the structures and scaffolding surrounding gender, sexuality, and what it means to build an ‘unconventional’ family, but I don’t care for Nelson’s methodology. To sum up: there can never be an either/or unless you so choose.12-15

“ I do not want the female gender that has been assigned to me at birth. Neither do I want the male gender that transsexual medicine can furnish and that the state will award me if I behave in the right way. I don’t want any of it.”（幸运，刚想看这书就看到了。）10-13

啊啊啊啊啊啊啊each pages took an identity crisis to read05-13

之前鲜少读关于maternity和motherhood的讨论，从这些主题中大受启发；另外，many-gendered mother这个词引介得太好了！11-07

Nice book. Tender, moving, and illuminating, but not exactly in the form that engages me the most.02-13

最打动我的大概是她本科时与她心目中理想的intellectual mother Christina Crosby的互动。讲到Crosby这位一辈子在解构身分的帅气Butch，在身分问题上被一群爱她、但又拥抱女性身分、拥抱基于身分的女性主义传统的学生所羞辱。理论与经验、私人与公共、结构与解构的互动在这则逸事中表现得很透彻。师生交互也说明了autobiography和autotheory的价值：auto并不意味着自我沉溺，而是对相依而生的关系性的投入，是一个邀请的手势，邀请他人加入自身所处的空间与传统。03-22

好看 Maggie Nelson的书有种絮絮叨叨神经质但就是想继续读的感觉。Bluets是，这本也是 从精神分析和性别的角度入手的不能被定义为自传的自传。讲述自己和从女性变为男性的伴侣Harry的故事，以及Harry母亲去世和他们借精生的孩子的降临。最后的死亡和新生，是种轮回09-27

nothing compares to an intelligent woman revealing what she finds sexy and bewildering among all things. i’ve never encountered such a thrilling perspective on the usually normalized maternity/child bearing, exhausting but exhilarating to read04-17

要是见文字在见作者之前就好了。12-30

2018上半年最喜欢的contemporary，很好奇会有怎样的天才能把自传写成了富有诗性的散文式学术论文。09-01

“I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.” 03-25