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A Year in Reading: Davey Davis

As trans writers, we are expected to reduce our lives to narratives (“born in the wrong body,”) and practices (gratuitous deadnaming) that maximize cis titillation. This expectation hamstrings all of us, not only cliche-ifying even the best of memoir but precluding other, and two of the most interesting books I read in 2020 wouldn’t exist. 

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