How to Fuck Like a Girl

by Vera Blossom

Overview

A cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice.

A bold and vulnerable collection from a new, young voice, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a daring mash-up of pillow book, grimoire, and manifesto by writer Vera Blossom. From hooking up to trans witchcraft, petty crime, capitalism, friendships, divorce, and survival, Blossom brings wit and melancholy, grandeur and smarts, debuting a bright literary voice as raunchy as it is heartfelt. A cheeky how-to guide that earnestly asks if it is possible to fuck oneself into girlhood, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a cult classic in the making.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635902273
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	10/15/2024
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Vera Blossom is a proud Filipina American and transfemme monster. Her work explores desire, pleasure, gender, and death. She writes the steamy, confessional newsletter How to Fuck Like a Girl, and cofounded Snack Report, a food blog focused on rituals, feelings, and friendship. In 2021, she helped produce Black Mountain Radio, an artist-driven audio project published in collaboration with Black Mountain Institute and the Believer magazine. In 2022, she was associate producer on season 2 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine, which focused on the disinformation ecosystem constructed by the Christian Nationalist movement. In 2023, she was selected as an Ann Friedman Weekly Fellow and a PEN America Emerging Voice.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"A brilliant young writer. In this fascinating, reverent, and deeply felt memoir, Vera charts her life as a young trans woman of color. Vera’s prose is electric, riveting, witty and alive. A fierce and necessary and moving book."
—Tanaïs, author of In Sensorium: Notes for My People

"How To Fuck Like a Girl is the perfect book! Vera Blossom’s stories gave me everything I could possibly want: hot airport sex, gender euphoria, community love, more hot airport sex. On every page, Blossom reminds us what makes life funny and beautiful without sparing readers hard truths about what it takes to survive under late stage capitalism. Tender and big-hearted and aspirationally slutty, you will laugh and tear up and be a better person after reading this."
—Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual

"A queer coming of age told in the style of a tumblr blog, leaping from a shoplifting guide to musings on pastel goth aesthetics to abstract poetic musings on gay romance. An encapsulation of an era. I loved it so much—it’s incredible."
—Liara Roux, author of Whore of New York