-to a trans-friendly interpretation.

But she was also writing at a time when (for many) liberation struggles were seen as (mostly) binary. So it's an excellent q to be asking.

Jumping in late here--ty for this discussion. I'm not trans (although I consider myself gender-blurry,) so I'm no authority here. But when I think about hooks' work, she wrote passionately about the gendered destruction of parts of self, the cage of expectations, which, at least in my mind, pointed-