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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 16/10/2026

Hey chat, while you guys appreciate this massive book haul I've collected over the past three months, I wanted to give y'all an overdue health update 🧵 I finally found the Doom Patrol omnibus at ComicCon Ottawa for a steal, but most of this came from A Room of One's Own in Madison WI

Sea Mother Swallow Tongues Kim de l'Horizon
Sex Change and the City Tuck Woodstock and Niko Stratus
Girl Work Zephyr Lisowski
All Us Saints Katherine Packert Burke
No God But Us Bobuq Stayed
Again Harder Alice Stoehr
Doom Patrol Omnibus Rachel Pollack
School Isabel Paban Freed
The Lamb will Slaughter the Lion Margaret Killjoy
The Dinner Party Cat Fitzpatrick
Estro Junkies Talia Bhatt Beth Leigh Ann
Splendor by various trans poets
This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want Hailey Piper
Battalion Shaped Girl Temperance Aghamohammadi

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 02/07/2026

Oh hey I'm on Wikipedia lol. That's cool. I'm not sure when Wikipedia got a page on trans literature, but I'm pretty sure it didn't exist two years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transge...

Still, intersectional trans literature is a slow-growing genre.[31][12] Scholar Bethany Karsten found very few Black transfeminine novelists upon a survey of the field in 2024. Novels published in the 2020s included Shola von Reinhold's LOTE, Alexandrine Ogundimu's The Longest Summer, Kuchenga Shenjé's The Library Thief, and Denne Michele Norris's When the Harvest Comes.[31] Kuchenga Shenjé praised the nuanced intersectional transmasculine narrative within the 2020 novel The Vanishing Half, by cisgender author Brit Bennett.[12]

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 01/07/2026

I was going to write a nice review of Cate Fox and then I saw this:

An AI cover for Cate Fox and the Case of the Fading Magic that looks like an cheap knockoff of a Hogwarts Legacy promo

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15/06/2026

I know everyone talks about and remembers the Tipping Point cover story, but the Time Magazine issue that defined my childhood was their 2017 "Beyond He or She" cover story. That was the one that made me look and think, oh, that's me.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15/06/2026

Asking the question 'will a nude photoshoot sell a trans memoir to Hudson News customers' It's a bold strategy Cotton.

Laverne Cox with hair over her boobs and hands over her crotch, greyscaled to the same color as the background

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 15/06/2026

Feeling sick, time for some low brainpower reading with @lavernecox.bsky.social's new memoir. I found this in the airport lmao, it's giving Beyonce.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12/06/2026

I think it's fair to say it's been a pain in the neck.

It remains to be seen how the perceived distancing of establishment Democrats from trans issues, such as California Governor Gavin Newsom's very public alignment with the reactionary Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on trans women in sports will affect political party affiliation among trans voters.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 12/06/2026

Anyway today's read is the revised edition of Transgender History by @susanstryker.bsky.social. I've read 2ed at least five times, and I got through two chapters at the library earlier. Not much I haven't already said about this book. Pineco seems like a good fit, couldn't explain to you why.

Pineco from destined rivals peeking out the top of Transgender history third edition by Susan Stryker

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 10/06/2026

Or maybe it's not a perspective thing? Now I'm just confused.

Zuri laid back and stretched for a moment before gripping the bar. Intense, guttural drums and guitars played in her earpieces, keeping her blood pumping. She unracked the barbell and began her repetitions, hitting eight without trouble. She sat up with a slow blink before leaning over to press a button on the machine–it loaded up another plate on each side, metal clanging. Zuri hit another set, straining a little this time. She added more weight. She hit another set. On her last, she yelled at the top of her lungs for enough guts to grant her one additional count. Those tattooed, heavy arms fell down to her sides. I have to pull double duty.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 10/06/2026

Changing the font and typeface to keep the prose in third person limited, rather than using free indirect discourse, is an interesting stylistic choice. Not sure how I feel about it yet.

A bump of her brows and a tilted chin as Bho flicked a glance between what she had written and Tyson’s face. Oh no. Drilled. “Sergeant.” She stood stiffly and placed both of her palms on the desk, leaning forward ever so slightly. “You’ve just described yourself. Given our alignment of vision, I’ve made the decision to offer you the position of Platoon Commander.”

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 10/06/2026

Alright girls time to hire some black hole guns 🪖 I know absolutely nothing about this debut from @isfriday.northsky.social other than it being my first ever @the-book-bazaar.com project - doubly excited to check it out! Thank you Friday for the ARC!

Black Hole Guns for Hire by Friday Strout

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 10/06/2026

I've got a cold 🤧 so we're doing some low-key comics reading from @planetx.bsky.social! My exposure to comics is pretty limited. Mostly I would read my dad's old comics from the 70s and 80s (he was a DC fan). Legion of Super-Heroes is probably my fave, loved those when I was like ten.

Hawkgirl Once Upon A Galaxy by Jadzia Axelrod, Amancay Nahuelpan, and Adriano Lucas

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

"Dark things in East Asia" Girl what. I'm not getting paid enough to deal with this novella's relationship to race smh. Using slavery for cheap shock value with no depth or payoff.

“I’ll let you in on a secret.” Needle teeth drew blood from Jacob’s lips. “You, he wanted you. He was an addict of your kind. A sick and twisted sin. That’s why they discharged him; he got addicted to little sinners like you, got a bum leg when he got a little too forceful. Lust and envy drove him to dark things in East Asia. But ever his thoughts were of you. And you led him on. You’re only a half-bitch at best. I guess that’s why Jacob liked you. If I let him have your bitch-boy body, I can do my job. Why he would want half a woman, I don’t know.”

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

Lol wait until she learns I found it on Amazon. That's the real horror story here.

“What kind of fucked up horror story has ghosts, haunted houses and a serial killer?!” I asked as I nearly slipped on the old runner—moth eaten and decaying in this part of the manor. My hands instinctually grabbed the candelabra on the wall nearest. It snapped and clattered to the floor.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

Chat I regret to inform you that the primary driver of the horror here appears to be white guilt. With a side heaping of whatever this is.

The rain and the house devoured the silence that followed with relentless sounds. It was Jacob who spoke first. “Yea, its like its warn’in us. Heard som’thin. In the big ol’ oven. Knocking, and a mans voice…” We all looked in the corner where a massive iron black oven was recessed into a brick wall. “What’d he say?” I asked. “Master will cook you too.” “Fuck me,” Mason breathed out, then cracked open the cheap booze and took a swig. He proffered it to me, and I nodded in thanks. Nevermind his swearing, I felt the situation called for a little mild cursing.

“Right before I heard you calling for me, Alexie, I thought I saw bodies in a tree outside the house. Then I heard knocking… from inside the walls.” “Your-you’re joking. I made that up. The original owners didn’t actually kill and hide their slaves in the walls… did they?” My hands shook, so I tried to distract them with more jerky. I was just trying to sell the place to the bank. Did I manifest some horrid thing? Did that make me a horrible person? I shook my head. Telling a story and committing an atrocity were different ballparks. I couldn’t do that, who in God’s grace could? Spinning a tale about such evil… well. God gave us free will, and that included the dark parts of one’s imagination. They’re called intrusive thoughts for a reason.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

If you're going for hetslop, you can't go wrong here lol

Good Witch There's a little magic in everyone a hallmark channel original series feat. Catherine Bell James Denton and Bailee Madison

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

Mmm blood flavored whiskey, delicious. I gotta say, it's going for Southern Gothic but it's giving more Hallmark. Back in high school my family was really into Good Witch, this is reminding me of that lmao.

Thick, sweet, and coppery with the same tart cherry and chocolate notes. I glared accusingly at the liquid gold, then at the room. Was there something different about the corner where I had aged it? Each barrel had its own corner so I could experiment. This one was closest to the brick wall and stairs to the kitchen above. Ventilation? Or perhaps an unseen mold on the brick, or rusty nails. A thought coiled in my mind. “It tastes like blood.” Another sip, and the thought tightened around my fears. It was slight, the taste, faint as a fleeting memory. Yet, it remained present. I licked my lips as I imagined a dead body in the barrel. One of the dead residents taking up a home in my whiskey.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

We can only aspire to work the corn and provide the hooch 😊

Who am I to judge? After all, being a trans woman in a small southern town would be a death sentence in most other places. It helped that the pastor was my stepfather; he took me in when my parents died in a terrible accident. They only ever found an arm and some blood. Out of the four hundred or so people in our town, only a handful brought their concerns to Pastor John about my transition. Claiming I was acting out, they said it was the Devil’s work. Pastor John had some words for those people. “Does God not know us? Did He not breathe life into our very being? If He has a plan and knows who ‘we’ are before conception, molded us, then who are we to say this is wrong? I ask you, how does Alex—now Alexie—truly harm your life? Listen not to the snakes, but to your heart and God. Alexie is part of our community; she works the corn like all of you and provides your hooch. So, I would ask all those with sin and hate in their hearts to pray and let go.”

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

Get a hot load of this sexy, sexy small print front matter copyright disclaimer.

Copyright © 2025 by V.K. Ridge Cover design © by V.K. Ridge | Canva Interior design © by V.K. Ridge All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever, including AI, without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

Anyway because my research skills are unmatched, here's some actual AI-free bargain bin Kindle writing that I doubt anyone has heard of before. I miss reading these obscure novellas, let's give it a go 😙

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

Chat haven't I been so good chat. Don't you understand. Stare long into the void. It calls to me, Mark 🥺

Most Friday nights looked the same. I’d show up at her apartment with a six-pack, she’d order pizza, and we’d spend hours on the couch yelling at the TV while playing whatever new fighting game had dropped. She was just… Chloe. One of the guys, except she wasn’t. Not really.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 07/06/2026

Yeah bro when she said "eheefmmmmmfmfmfmmfkmmu" I really felt that.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 06/06/2026

"Trans breast as reterritorialized site of production" is going to live rent free in my head tonight lol.

ginger christmas princess (2)
far away from you i've been networking with women in millennial blouses. if i was a proper Stalinist i would ship every last one to a trailer park
then move to the trailer park so i could live somewhere normal near my mom and sister & still make life-affirming art money connections.
my trailer park novel would go crazy. you would be so hot vaping on the concrete steps
in your daisy dukes under the kind of sky that burns carcinogens right into our lungs
& tits-Sybil told me six women on this street have had breast cancer and tonight we'll rub
postmenopausal estrogel on each other's breasts and i won't think trans breast as reterritorialized site of production, i will just sing Amy Winehouse

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 06/06/2026

As a card-carrying 6'4" member of the Tall Girl Club, I'm ready for this one!! @littlepuss.net is having such an insane year that I'm currently three 2026 releases behind lmao 😵‍💫 time to see what's up.

Missed connections with tall girls by Gwen Aube ✨

Bookmark is Ponyta from Destined Rivals

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 06/06/2026

Went on a fantastic bookstore crawl on Thursday to get this #pride haul! Lots of exciting recent releases :)) You should check out all these authors: @planetx.bsky.social @willowcatelyn.bsky.social @blipstress.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social @samanthaallen.bsky.social

Missed Connections with Tall Girls by Gwen Aube
Hawkgirl by Jadzia Axelrod
Corpses Monsters and Fools
Plastic Prism Void by Violet Allen
Transgender History 3e by Susan Stryker
Puck by Samantha Allen

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 06/06/2026

So I've got work to do if I'm gonna hit my yearly reading goal of 100 books....

I've only read and reviewed 18 books so far this year lol

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 02/06/2026

I'm like 15 minutes in and god is this terrible.

a screenshot of Cassie Lang and Antman in Quantumania cause I have no self respect

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 30/05/2026

Okay an indefinite power source in a setting that already has near-flawless nanotech.... I'm a little worried about jumping the shark here.

"Wait, it's free power?" Satya asked, stunned. " Like a perpetual motion machine?" "On the nano-scale," her computer replied. The display shifted, and a subset of the massive field of numbers was emphasized. "The conversion ratios are severely and exponentially limited, and remain subject to basic principles of entropy. A device of this size is the upper bound of what could theoretically be powered by such a conversion." Satya was silent for a long minute. "How long could a nanite run, using tech like this?" she asked softly. "Indefinitely," the computer replied. Satya concentrated on breathing. "From a half hour between charges to forever," she muttered, and shook her head.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 29/05/2026

Keeping up with my 2026 releases, here's Nameless by @impossiblephd.bsky.social 🩷 So far this wins the award for "timeliest novel" as a dystopian set in Minneapolis released during the Renee Good newscycle. I decided to wait a bit to read the text without projecting current events onto it.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 28/05/2026

Chat I have identified untapped potential in the market. Not even Nikki Crescent has dreamt of such illustrious highs. Only as a community and a movement can we come together in pursuit of the excellence we all deserve 😭

No results on the kindle market place for "viking trans erotica"

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 28/05/2026

Oh yeah, Laura is waaaaay worse in this draft. And frankly a much more compelling antagonist than Desdemona, this is the literary equivalent of kicking a stray cat. I absolutely loathe petty mean girl shit.

“You didn’t offend me. You could not possibly “offend” me, Katherine. Because you know what you are?” Laura’s voice drips with venom. “You’re a loser so fucking desperate for approval that you’ll let me call you by an entirely different name without correcting me once. You’re basically a clown I keep around to socialise my shut-in girlfriend. That’s the only reason I’m not sending you packing tonight, despite your eagerness to incriminate yourself. Capisce?”

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 28/05/2026

The great thing about this novel is that almost every single page of it is quotable. I'll do my best to exercise restraint so that I can, yknow, actually finish it in a reasonable timeframe.

Laura arches her eyebrows. “What else do I need? Gender is a fascinating subject. Not only does every man in this competition have a unique perspective on it, but he has a more enlightened, three-dimensional view than most, including trans women. We understand what it is to be transfeminised without surrendering our manhood! We are assured of our manhood even when those who gaze upon us are not! We are, dare I say it, more men than any man who has not tested the mettle of his gender in the fires we forge ours in! So yes, Izzy, I’ve written fiction about trans women. I intend to teach them what we know. Impart that wretched lot with as much faith in their womanhood as we have in our manhood.” I couldn’t help it. I actually gasped. The conviction, the skill, the mastery of both philosophy and oratory—Laura is everything a trans woman dreams of being.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 28/05/2026

I'm prepared for the cogitohazard this time. My mind is a steel trap. My Desdemona fanart is hung up on the wall. I'm ready for the worst of it.

My beautiful fanart of Desdemona getting thrown into a pool of hungry sharks

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 28/05/2026

Alright girls you know what time it is 🔥 Time to read about everybody's favorite pathetic wet kitten of a protagonist, Boymoder Sephiroth. Shoutout to @taliabhatt.itch.io and @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social for the review copy, I'll do the thing now :)

Estro Junkies by Talia Bhatt and Beth Leigh-Ann

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 28/05/2026

In unrelated news, I may have a terminal case of eggfic brainrot lmao 😅

A third consideration is that John reads rather eggy. I acknowledge my bias as a reader of trans fiction, but it's definitely an odd place to have such a blank slate man as the main character and viewpoint protagonist of a story that heavily deals in trans themes. It's a subversion of what you'd expect from similar characters in other trans novels - John just reads transfemme, and it's never explored or questioned in the story, despite heavy traffic in trans themes.

Probably that says more about me as a reader than WWAS as a novel. I'll be the first to acknowledge that when your favorite trans tropes are the hammer, every generic and vaguely listless male protagonist starts to look like a nail.

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 27/05/2026

Cruising along through What We Are Seeking ✨ I absolutely need an artbook for this novel. Full color xenobio illustrations would be so cool. I'm thinking the sort of work that Sanderson commissions in the Stormlight books.

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