Author: M Téllez
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Monk Reviews Bitch Goddess edited by Patrick Califia and Drew Campbell
The spiritual path of the dominant woman This review was first posted on goodreads in 2016: On a personal level, this book struck me as a relic of what I’ll casually call the (lgbt) BDSM scene of the 90s. Being able to effortlessly order it at my convenience and days later read the collection in…
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Monk Reviews The Leather Daddy and The Femme by Carol Queen
I ordered this book alongside DOING IT FOR DADDY. I read that one first and when I got to Carol Queen’s contribution in the anthology and it was a chapter from this book, I jumped immediately over to read Queen’s entire book from there. THE LEATHER DADDY AND THE FEMME is so good and hot…
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Monk Reviews Doing It For Daddy edited by Patrick Califia
“Read me a story, Daddy.”Oh, I think I can manage that … just take your pick. In between these covers you will be able to find just about any kind of daddy your heart desires. There’s a biological father whose gay son shows him that there’s more to sex than procreation; a leather daddy who…
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Trans Times in the Broad Street Review
The city is changing: new faces, apartments, businesses. These changes are often framed as progress or advancement. But what about what’s left behind? What happens to those who can’t afford the tickets to the future? In the COVID era, remote lifestyles radically alter the flow of life in Philadelphia. The past is being pushed out…
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Monk Reviews Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr
A brutal meditation in a hefty short story collection. Tiptree wrote dark and fatalistic sci-fi that lingers on today as something of a passed over and forgotten writer of the 70s speculative and feminist sci-fi waves (well this book is still in print so it’s not that forgotten). At one point Tiptree was lauded as…
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Monk Reviews James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips
To grow up as a “girl” is to be nearly fatally spoiled, deformed, confused, and terrified; to be responded to with falsities, to be reacted to as nothing or as a thing—and nearly to become that thing. Alice Sheldon I got into this biography after reading Tiptree’s Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. Anymore I recommend…
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Monk Reviews Testojunkie by Paul Preciado
Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era A group of us were sitting upstairs at Tattooed Mom’s after a reading I opened at the Wooden Shoe, when one of the attendees and friend of the headliner recommended me this book, suggesting I would find a lot to like about it. Me, a trans nonbinary…
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Monk Reviews We Both Laughed in Pleasure
The selected diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1999 Suddenly I saw a handful of queers were reading this. I wasn’t sure I cared, and then somehow it came up in conversation with my friend who immediately lent it to me (entrusted, really) to read. It’s a book made of diary excerpts, from the time someone is…
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Monk Reviews the Broken Earth Triology by N.K. Jemisin
This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram on November 3rd 2019. I’d been meaning to read N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy for a minute. People around me everywhere were saying how good this book was. Plus all three books of the triology won Hugo awards, which is a big big deal sci-fi fantasy…
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Monk Reviews They Is Us by Tama Janowitz
This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram on December 23rd 2019. I picked this up from a library bookshelf while I was checking out the 2nd book in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. The first few pages I opened to described a harried mom telling her pre-teen child to go to a strip…
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Monk Reviews Spliced by Jon McGoran
This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram on December 23rd 2019, so I will keep all the markup from that original here. I met the author of SPLICED while doing the live speculative fiction panel for @weirdkidswanted (ep11). He mentioned this YA book of his over the course of the panel talk, saying…
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Monk Reviews Woman Who Glows in the Dark by Elena Avila
This review was originally posted direct to my Instagram on December 23rd 2019. Here is a book I’d been wanting to read for a long time. Once again, I called it over to my local library via the online hold function. This book is about curanderismo, a syncretic healer tradition born from the mixings of…
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