Thank you Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Netgalley for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review!
Sarah and Kayla invite you to put on your purple aspec glasses - and rethink everything you thought you knew about society, friendship, sex, romance and more.
Drawing on their personal stories, and those of aspec friends all over the world, prepare to explore your microlabels, investigate different models of partnership, delve into the intersection of gender norms and compulsory sexuality and reconsider the meaning of sex - when allosexual attraction is out of the equation.
Rating: ☆ ☆ (2)
I have listened to a few episodes of their podcast and I enjoyed it, so I was curious about the book. Unfortunately, as a book, it didn't work for me at all. It was hard to follow a lot of times. Because this is still such underrepresented topic, I feel like they could've done more than just scratch the surface.
They did make some interesting points that I would to know more about, but that's about it.
What I really don't like is how casually JKR is mentioned in this book. Especially with how they have a whole chapter dedicated to gender.
They called it "JKR's view on gender." Call it what it is: transphobia. THAT is her view on gender. That part could have easily been left out of the book. I find it very disappointing that the TERF was mentioned in a book that is supposed to be queer friendly.
I just don't get why they had to include problematic things. Like when, a couple of pages before that mentioned a racist old-school Western movie as an example of genres with romantic-sexual storylines. The reason why they mentioned it was because there weren't any other old-school Westerns that aren't problematic. So... why not leave it out? They already made their point with the other genres they mentioned.
I don't understand the decision to mention problematic media when it doesn't really add something, but that could just be me.
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