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Imogen Binnie

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The United States

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https://imogenwatchesclassicfilms.wordpress.com/

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Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Contemporary

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Imogen Binnie wrote a monthly column for Maximum Rocknroll magazine for about nine years, as well as the zines The Fact That It's Funny Doesn't Make It A Joke and Stereotype Threat. Her novel Nevada was a thing, then it went out of print and it was less of a thing, and then it went back into print and became a thing again. She wrote for the TV shows Doubt, Council of Dads, and Cruel Summer. She also wrote an adaptation of the film "Love, Actually" which was set in Burlington, Vermont, in which all the characters were trans, but apparently it would violate "intellectual copyright law" to try to film it, so she posted it on Twitter. She also did a podcast called Imogen Watches Classic Films for a few years. She probably lives with her family ...more

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	Nevada 3.96 avg rating — 14,932 ratings — published 2013 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kim & Kim, Vol. 1 by Magdalene Visaggio, Eva Cabrera (Goodreads Author), Imogen Binnie (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.63 avg rating — 747 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Cat Fitzpatrick (Editor), Casey Plett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), RJ Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.98 avg rating — 424 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Léger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Riley MacLeod (Editor), Ryka Aoki (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.02 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Videogames for Humans by Merritt Kopas (editor), Imogen Binnie (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Zoe Quinn (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 88 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads by Ryka Aoki (Goodreads Author), Imogen Binnie (Goodreads Author), Dane Figueroa Edidi 4.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Imogen rated a book it was amazing Surface Detail (Culture, #9) by Iain M. Banks	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WITH LITERALLY THAT VERY LAST WORD :O
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4.5. Yet another Culture novel with an emotionally devastating climax that i somehow didn't see coming 🙄 we get it Iain, you were really good at this ...more
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I love Ted Lasso and I love modern perspectives in psychology and I love tiny little books.
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“Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

tags: gender

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“...nobody really wants to be a trans woman, i.e. nobody wakes up and goes whoa, maybe my life would be better if I transitioned, alienating most of my friends and my family, I wonder what'll happen at work, I'd love to spend all my money on hormones and surgeries, buying a new wardrobe that I don't even understand right now, probably become unlovable and then ending my short life in a bloody murder.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

tags: trans-woman, transgender

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“Maybe convincing yourself that you could never transition is a defense mechanism that enabled you to survive high school, family, work—but like most defense mechanisms, it wasn’t conscious, and like most defense mechanisms, it became a pattern you weren’t aware of, and then, like most defense mechanisms, at some point it stopped making your life easier and started making your life harder.”
― Imogen Binnie, Nevada

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What should be our October group read (open choice)?

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

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The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa Ashour

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Nevada by Imogen Binnie

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (aka Sorcerer's Stone) by J.K. Rowling

3 votes 11.5%

My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

2 votes 7.7%

Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie

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Let Me Alone by Anna Kavan

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The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón

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Shame by Annie Ernaux

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An Exclusive Love: A Memoir by Johanna Adorján

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The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector

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Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir by Lisa F. Smith

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“Whoa dude. My belt came undone when you said that.”
― Liz Prince

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“Without a bellyful of liquor, all I am is a woman who cracks stupid jokes to make up for being shy.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

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“I do not mean to say that I viewed those desires of mine that deviated from accepted standards as normal and orthodox; nor do I mean that I labored under the mistaken impression that my friends possessed the same desires. Surprisingly enough, I was so engrossed in tales of romance that I devoted all my elegant dreams to thoughts of love between man and maid, and to marriage, exactly as though I were a young girl who knew nothing of the world. I tossed my love for Omi onto the rubbish heap of neglected riddles, never once searching deeply for its meaning. Now when I write the word love, when I write affection, my meaning is totally different from my understanding of the words at that time. I never even dreamed that such desires as I had felt toward Omi might have a significant connection with the realities of my "life.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

tags: gay-gay-gay

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“What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.”
― Thomas Mann

tags: public

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“Dudes in suits and politicians didn't make sense to my 18-year-old brain. All I wanted to do was be awesome.”
― Ronen Kauffman, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, GOODBYE Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self

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