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The Thirty Names of Night

Book by Zeyn Joukhadar · 4 quotes · Gender, Trans, Transmasc

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“Girl. Who are you hiding from?" Sami means well. He means to include me in that sisterhood of femmes, a sacred circle to which Reem belongs. But it's a place I've never been at home. "Please don't call me that.”

Gender Femininity Trans Transmasc

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“We are seated across from a couple of pregnant women and their partners, who glance at us over their magazines. I can imagine that we make a strange pair, but it's the way they glare at me that makes me pause, as though I'm rude for appearing this way, with my square jaw and unreadable face, in a space where they had expected someone legible.”

Gender Masculinity Femininity Trans Transmasc

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“I've tried to block out the awkward years of my puberty, but we've played this same what-if game before, you and me—what if it's just a matter of finding the right haircut, the right outfit, the right boyfriend, the right femininity. Maybe you were right in some way; you never gave in to expectations of what a woman should be.”

Femininity Trans Transmasc

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“My body came with borders. I've lost count of the times I wished I could share in sisterhood, could lay my head on an auntie's lap and know we bore the same weight. But I've borne a different burden, and I've borne it so long that, as I turn the barrette over in my hand, I don't yet have the heart to tell Aisha that I have tried all the ways I can think of to make myself fit in.”

Gender Femininity Trans Transmasc

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