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jazzxteax

They/them Queer stories, horror & lit fic 🖤 ✨️dyslexic ✨️ Non fiction reading goal 8/12 +1 untracked book to goal

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  • Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows
    jazzxteax
    Aug 12, 2026
    Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows
    2.5
    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.0Characters: Plot:

    Well that was disappointing...not much else to say. Lill bits of enjoyment significantly overwhelmed by random tangents about nothing.

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    Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows

    Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows

    Megan Milks

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  • Invisible Boys
    jazzxteax
    Aug 11, 2026
    Invisible Boys
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0Audiobook: 4.0

    A coming of age story thats just about as raw and heartbreaking as they come. These characters could leap out of the page and cry real tears and I wouldn't question it for a second.

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    Invisible Boys

    Holden Sheppard

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  • Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows
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    Thoughts from 59% (page 188)

    Probably my favourite paragraph so far.

    "IN RENAISSANCE EUROPE, Christian cultural and religious authorities believed that strange milk would estrange the child. Today, right-wing cultural and religious authorities believe transness will do that. Trans people curdle the milk; we do it even as we're being milked, our transness extracted from our overall humanity and funneled through narrowing, pathologizing rhetoric. We're not real. We're not real, and yet we're ruining the nation. Ruining families. Estranging other people's children through our contaminating presence. We've been cast out by right-wing scare tactics invested in deep-ening cultural division and mistrust. We have been poured out and polluted with something else, something unfamil-iar and toxic."

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    Mega Milk: Essays on Family, Fluidity, Whiteness, and Cows

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    Megan Milks

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    Invisible Boys

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    Holden Sheppard

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    Boy Swallows Universe

    Boy Swallows Universe

    Trent Dalton

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  • Yeah the Boys
    jazzxteax
    Aug 07, 2026
    Yeah the Boys
    4.5
    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 4.0

    If you told me this was a memoir I would probably belive you. This book is messy, aggravating, stupid, fun, raunchy and beutyfuly. Much like it's characters, that now almost feel like freinds, it learns to be unapologetic, nothing about this book was what I expected. Im not going to lie, I felt uncomfortable at points reading this book, is this ment for me? Am I invaliding a space im not ment to be by reading it? And I dont know if I have an answer for that. But I do know all queer stories desserve to be heard. So in glad i read it and will mark this as the first, but definitely not the last Holden Sheppard book I read.

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    Yeah the Boys

    Yeah the Boys

    Holden Sheppard

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  • Yeah the Boys
    ring_a_ding016
    Jun 18, 2026
    Yeah the Boys
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    I adore characters that feel so real that I could’ve met them on the street. I also adore authentic stories of queer people. Coz yeah, there are some gay men who love makeup and are more feminine, there are lesbians who are masc and wouldn’t dream of wearing a dress, but there are also gay men who love contact sport and mechanics and abhor the idea of wearing makeup. There are lesbian women who adore wearing makeup and dresses and being feminine. And queerness isn’t all we are. It’s just a part.

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    Taiwan Travelogue

    Yång Shuāng-zǐ

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