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She Wants It
She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy | Jill Soloway
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A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life lived and raw talent shared. Good. Detailed. Honest. Needed - Amy Poehler One morning, half-awake in a shame spiral about what a shitty mother you are because youre letting your kid watch so much TV, the phone rings. Jilly? Are you sitting down? Are you sitting down? means something fucked up is coming... When Jill Soloways father, whom they had always understood to be male, came out as transgender, everything shifted. For one, the moment became the inspiration to push through the male-dominated landscape of Hollywood and create the award-winning TV series Transparent. Exploring identity, love, sexuality, and the blurring of boundaries, the show gave birth to a new cultural consciousness. But also, by eventually coming out as queer and non-binary, the lines on Jills own gender map began to be erased. This is the story of that journey. She Wants It charts Jill's intense and revelatory experience, growing from straight, divorced, mother of two to non-binary genderqueer director, show creator, and activist. Written with wild candour and razor-edged humour, it examines who we are, how we make art and ultimately, who we can become.
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brandierickson
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Grandparents are here so I am cranking through the books!

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readingjedi
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Mehso-so

This one just scrapes a So-So for me. It has some interesting things to say but not enough to warrant the grand title. It's a memoir rather than a feminist essay which took me by surprise & I'd never heard of Jill Soloway or her work. I didn't particularly warm to her or her inconsistent writing style so that didn't help. And I didn't really like her reaction to the allegations of sexual abuse on her show.

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Krose1
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Pickpick

I wasn‘t so sure when I started this because I have heard conflicting things about Transparent in the wake of #Metoo, but I appreciated how the whole book was a transformation and an admittance of getting a lot wrong. I like that she was honest about what she was trying to do and that she was still learning as she was figuring out the world for herself too.

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BookmarkTavern
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hannah-leeloo I love Terry pratchett. Happy reading 🙂 6y
BookmarkTavern @hannah-leeloo I'll tell you a secret. Snuff has been in and out of my TBR stack ever since I bought it. Because it's the last Pratchett book I bought. Once I read it, there will be no more new Pratchett, and I'm still not ready to handle that just yet. ☺️So I probably won't be reading it for a while. 6y
hannah-leeloo I really don't blame you for holding onto that magic. I was gutted when he was lost to us. Hope you enjoy the other books too. Take care 🙂 6y
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BookmarkTavern
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I'm not sure how well I'll do, given I'm still working 50+ hours a week, but I thought I'd give the @bookriot #riotgrams challenge a shot this month!

#shelfie

BookBabe Omg, this is just gorgeous!!! 😍😍😍 6y
ReadingVampire Wow how beautiful! 🤤🤤 6y
TrishB Beautiful pic ❤️ 6y
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TieDyeDude
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Mehso-so

This was okay. There were some really solid segments deconstructing the patriarchy and making valid arguments from a female-forward society. This is a memoir, however, not a manifesto, which I saw some reviews criticize. It was interesting to read her struggle with joining the queer/trans community while fighting entrenched gender-normative notions of society, especially when accusations against Tambor surfaced.

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GidgetsTreasures75
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11-25-18: My 60th finished book of 2018! 👍🏼📖#️⃣6️⃣0️⃣

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Lel2403
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Mehso-so

This is a celebrity memoir and starts well with a happy family life, husband + two sons, but then Jill gets a call from her father announcing he is trans. She came to terms with the news and accepted ‘moppa‘.

Then its about how she used experiences to write Transparent, the show on Amazon. It felt too much an advert for the show at times. But its honest and covers gender identity and acceptance. Worth a read. Thanks to netgalley. #netgally

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Lel2403
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Faith and I agreed on picking up barbecue to enhance the absurd factor. Moments are always less heavy when people have charred meat in their teeth.

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Lel2403
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Just starting this.....

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Suelizbeth
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Mehso-so

ARC, First To Read, Penguin House. I have to admit to skimming to the last few pages of the book. I was enjoying the beginning of the book, but it seemed to devolve into manic episodes of “this happened” and “this happened” and then “this happened” to the point where I was having a hard time following along. I‘m happy that Jill Soloway has found who they are. It was just extremely overwhelming and I suppose that‘s the point, isn‘t it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Hooked_on_books
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Panpan

This book is a missed opportunity. Written by the creator of Transparent, it is ostensibly a feminist manifesto and exploration of gender fluidity wrapped in a memoir. In reality, it is a navel-gazing, self-congratulatory piece in which the author fails to recognize their own complicity in silencing and apologism. I‘m very disappointed.