Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

2022. Faltas is a harrowing memoir of growing up too queer to hide it in Argentina in the 70s and 80s. Gentili faced constant hate and abuse from an early age. The rape and sexual abuse was heartbreaking, but I felt it was good to be talking about it. So many women, trans and cis, face this, and boys too. Hopefully this will make many trans women who’ve suffered this kind of abuse feel less alone. I want to shy away from words like brave and resilient, because that narrative seems to detract from the rage we should all have at the men who perpetrate these crimes. Our children shouldn’t have to be brave and resilient. While also, I recognize, she survived. She thrives now, no thanks to most of the people in the book. I’m angry at show more rape culture, at toxic masculinity, at patriarchy, at religion when it’s used against queer children. I’m angry that this story isn’t rare, it’s all too common. But I’m glad the book exists in all its painful honesty. We need books like this unless or until we can actually heal as a society and be better. show less