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Confessions of the Last Normal Woman<\/em><\/h3>\n

Harron Walker<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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A searing journey through the highs and lows of twenty-first century womanhood from an award-winning journalist beloved for her unflinchingly honest and often comedic appraisals of pop culture, identity, and disillusionment\u201cA delicious reading experience\u2014like hearing your smartest friend eviscerate the worst person you know.\u201d\u2014Sabrina Imbler, author of How Far the Light Reaches\u201cSuch a brilliant writer, with so many surprising moves.\u201d\u2014Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby<\/p>\n

After a brief fling with corporate stability in her twenty-something cis era, Harron Walker has transitioned into a terminally single freelancer and part-time shopgirl. She’s in the throes of her second adolescence and its requisite daily spirals. She wants it all, otherwise known as: basic human rights, a stable job with good pay and healthcare benefits, someone to love, the ability to feel safe and secure, the pursuit of satisfaction and maybe even contentment. And when she starts to acquire those things\u2014well, as The Monkey’s Paw famously asked, ‘What could go wrong?’In sixteen wholly original essays that blend memoir, cultural criticism, investigative journalism, and a dash of fanfiction, Walker places her own experiences within the larger context of the pressing and underdiscussed aspects of contemporary American womanhood that make up daily life. <\/p>\n

She recounts an attempt to eviscerate a corporation’s attempt at pinkwashing their way into bath bomb sales while simultaneously confronting her \u201cpick me\u201d impulse to do so. She interrogates her relationship to labor, from the irony of working in a transphobic workplace in order to cover gender-affirming surgery to the cruel specter of the girlboss that none of us ever think we’ll become. She explores the allure and violence of assimilating into white womanhood in all its hegemonic glory, exposes the ways in which the truth of trans women’s reproductive healthcare is erased in favor of reactionary narratives, and considers how our agency is stripped from us\u2014by governments, employers, partners, and ourselves\u2014purely on account of our bodies.<\/p>\n

With razor-sharp, biting prose that\u2019s as uncompromising as it is playful, Walker grapples with questions of love, sex, fertility, labor, embodiment, community, autonomy, and body fluids from her particular vantagepoint: often at the margins, conditionally at the center.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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