Name: Ari Rose's review of Sexed Up by Julia Serano
Item: Sexed Up
Author: Ari Rose

Julia Serano

The author of landmark manifesto Whipping Girl exposes the violent ways we are all sexualized-then offers a bold path for resistance Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano argues that sexualization is a far more pervasive problem, as it's something that we all do to other people, often without being aware of it. Why do we perceive men as sexual predators and women as sexual objects? Why are LGBTQ+ people stereotyped as being sexually indiscriminate and deceptive? Why are people of color still being hypersexualized? These stereotypes push minorities farther into the margins, and even the privileged are policed from transgressing, lest they also become targets. Many view sexualization as a mere component of sexism, racism, or queerphobia, but Serano argues that liberation from sexual violence comes through collectively confronting sexualization itself.

How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

Sexed Up

Genesis (@whisperingchapters)

I don't rate nonfiction books hit I loved this one so much! I really like subjects on sexuality, gender, and that sort of thing. And, having live my whole life in a female presenting body, I have some lived experience on how sexualization can affect someone. Getting to understand the mindsets that feed sexualization was very interesting, as well as the various ways sexualization can present and what sort of suggestions the author has for how we can "combat" it (not sure that's the word she did or would use, but I'm drawing a blank lol).

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Sexed Up by Julia Serano