The Argonauts

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Nelson, Maggie, 306.85 Ne
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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"A genre-bending memoir, a work of 'autotheory' offering ... thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making"--Dust jacket flap.

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Some small snippets I enjoyed submitted by lexinylander on July 12, 2018, 7:17pm "What exactly is lost to us when words are wasted? Can it be that words comprise one of the few economies left on earth in which plentitude - surfeit, even - comes at no cost?"

"No matter what we do, it always feels dirty without feeling lousy."

"Indeed, one of the gifts of genderqueer family making - and animal loving- is the revelation of caretaking as detachable from - and attachable to - any gender, any sentient being."

"2011, the summer of our changing bodies. Me, four months pregnant, you six months on T. We pitched out, in our inscrutable hormonal soup, for Fort Lauderdale"

"But when I ascended my front steps and saw the weapon, shadowy in the twilight, I knew you loved me. It was talisman of protection - a means of keeping myself safe ... I've kept it by my bedside ever since. Not because I think they're coming for us per se. But because it makes the brutal tender, which I've since learned is one of your principal gifts."

"I was ashamed, but undaunted (my epithet?)."

"There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy."

So overrated submitted by redwood on August 4, 2019, 12:36pm I don't get why everyone loves this book. I loved Nelson's Bluets, but this one just feels like a lite queer theory reader.

Meditative, Subversive, and enchanting submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on August 20, 2020, 11:56am This innovative and thrilling memoir chronicles the parallel narratives of the author's first pregnancy and her partner's gender transition, alongside ruminations and quotes on gender, motherhood, and many other subjects. It manages to be intensely intellectual but also intimate and moving. It illuminates and deepens the urgent conversations being had about gender and sexuality.