Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Gender/Fucking invites the reader to consider sexuality and the body as legitimate sources of insight into living in a difficult yet occasionally loving world. Drawing on their experiences as a transfeminine activist, academic, and slut, Ashley asks what it means to alter a body figured as monstrous? To be fetishized while struggling to love yourself? To hold sexual trauma as a kinkster? To be horny on main in a sex-negative world? Swerving feverishly between the dazzlingly cerebral and searingly private, poking and probing at the boundaries of sexual propriety. A startling and intimate collection from the first openly transfeminine law clerk of the Supreme Court of Canada, Ashley dissects the boundaries between gender, sex, and law, while sharing the most tender moments of body, heart, and soul.
Synopsis
Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world. Taking the idea of intellectual masturbation a bit too literally, Florence Ashley draws on their experiences as a transfeminine activist, academic, and slut to interrogate what it means to live in a gendered body in our difficult yet occasionally loving world. With personal essays about the fetishization of trans bodies, recovering from surgery, and losing hope, Florence's collection celebrates the queer messiness of sex and identity.
Through the embrace of its raw and lyrical prose,
Gender/Fucking invites the reader into the intimate world of academic smut to ask what it means to be horny on main in a sex-negative world--and what power it might hold.