Occasionally one reads scholarly reviews in which the reviewer's opinion about a text is expressed with subtlety and deftness, but this is a book about Tumblr and porn, so: I think this book is fucking great and everyone should buy it.
Of course, it is also true that no discussion of Tumblr and its aftereffects would be complete without discourse, and I will thus make a longer argument for the importance of this thin, nonacademic volume to the field of transgender studies in this particular moment. Sitting on a precipice of early institutionalization and cultural backlash, trans studies can feel under pressure to simultaneously embrace the legacy of trans sexual cultures and to become more “professional,” to elevate itself above the teapot-tempests of social media drama and to remain accessible to nonacademics. What Tumblr Porn offers is a model of hybridity: a text that simultaneously takes seriously the legacy...
