Hello Cruel World

“You don't have to look at yourself with their eyes. Ever.”

I love this book. Wise, funny Kate Bornstein guides readers through those hells and taboos that “normal” and “polite” people pretend don't exist.

Bornstein wants readers to stop proving themselves real whatevers (fill in your binary nouns): “Free your imagination from the institutions that enthrall you.” In other words, if you can free yourself from either/or thinking, you can expunge others' tyrannies from your brain, and lessen your suffering.