Detransition, Baby

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We talk with Torrey Peters about her breakout novel, Detransition, Baby, full of queer characters finding and defining family, and why she dedicated it to divorced cis women. Plus, a bunch of great reading recommendations for books by trans authors.

Reading List:

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

An Unkindness of Ghosts by River Solomon

Lote by Shola Von Reinhold

Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleischmann

Poetry by Joss Barton

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:03.2	A podcast for long distance besties everywhere.
0:06.7	I'm Executive Producer Gina Delvack.
0:09.4	And I'm Producer Jordan Bailey.
0:11.6	So Jordan, when we were planning out, what did we want to do for Pride?
0:15.9	One of the things that came up over and over again was how obsessed you were
0:20.3	with Tori Peter's book, DeTransition Baby. I'm so excited you got to talk to her.
0:24.2	Yes, I was literally obsessed. It was the kind of thing that I just could not stop
0:29.2	talking about. Couldn't stop reading. But it was one of those books where like,
0:33.2	I couldn't stop reading it. But also, I tried to read it as slow as possible because
0:37.9	I just didn't want it to end. I was like trying to see for every moment I had with
0:43.1	the characters. But you know, I did end up finishing it and I'm really glad I did.
0:50.0	But yeah, this was one of my favorite books this year. And I had a really great
0:53.7	conversation with Tori. And I'm so glad I got to talk with her.
1:24.2	Thank you so much for being on Call Your Girlfriend. I'm so excited to talk to you.
1:36.2	I'm really glad to be here.
1:38.0	Yeah, I read your book earlier this year and I was like completely obsessed with it.
1:42.6	I, it's one of the books that I just like, every time I had a conversation with a friend,
1:47.0	I was like, have you read DeTransition Baby yet? Like, you have to read this book. I honestly
1:51.4	recommended it like, no less than 100 times. So I am like, very excited to get to talk with you
1:56.7	about it. But for anybody who hasn't had the pleasure of reading it yet, how would you describe
2:03.1	DeTransition Baby? You know, I, I need to go with like, my elevator pitch. There's a lot of
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