The Care Praxis Within

I wanted Trans Care to be longer. The book is what I believe reviewers typically mean when they refer to a “slim volume,” coming in at—in the edition kindly sent to me by GLQ—seventy-nine pages, bibliography included. As a historian, I found this jarring. As a trans person refreshing Twitter to see what fresh hell is being unleashed in state legislatures today, I felt a deep sense of relief and perhaps, if you will, of being cared for. It was a feeling I wanted more of, even amid my gratitude for not having to claw my way through a four-hundred-pager while dealing with (*gestures broadly*) all of this. I dwell on this not for the sake of saying this is a short book but to emphasize how effectively Hil Malatino has woven form and function: reading Trans Care feels like an act of receiving trans care, in that it...