Casey Plett

2023. I will read anything Casey writes, but I didn't think she had much to say about community that I hadn't already thought myself. It is hard and awkward and cringe-y, and we all want and need it, and we have to work at it. It doesn't just happen. She seemed to assume that everyone would know why it feels so cringe, and she didn't explain why. I do feel that it's uncomfortable, but my friends in book club said they didn't and they didn't understand why she was assuming that all trans people would feel that way, and it made them feel left out of the community already, because apparently they didn't know how they were supposed to feel.

We all agreed that we liked the parts where Casey talked about herself and her own life and experiences better than her ideas about community in general. We liked the Mennonite bits, and the gossipy bits about trans publishing, and her house in Windsor that she shares with her ex, Sybil Lamb. Write a memoir, Casey.… (más)