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Torrey Peters Speaks Lumberjack
The Stag Dance author on exploring transness as a feeling through logger slang. “I was like, I just want to write these weird words.”
The book’s cast includes boarding-school jocks, fetishists in full-body rubber suits, lonely lumberjacks going courting in the depths of winter. I recently spoke with Peters at her book launch at the Strand in New York, where she delved into her new experiments with style, the limitations of the trans–cis binary, and what old-timey loggers called chewing tobacco. Harron Walker wrote a profile of me and in the course of talking to me, I didn’t understand the concept of “on the record.” At the time, Andrea’s incredible essay “On Liking Women” had just come out, and I was probably a bit jealous.
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