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The Argonauts A Memoir

Maggie Nelson

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family The Argonauts

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

The host highlighted a passage where Nelson compares gender transition to aging, using it to illustrate how gender evolves over time.

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there's a lovely passage in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts where she kind of accidentally or coincidentally compares gender transition to aging.

— Episode: We Need Better Narratives About Gender

Episode: We Need Better Narratives About Gender

The host highlighted a passage where Nelson compares gender transition to aging, using it to illustrate how gender evolves over time.

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there's a lovely passage in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts where she kind of accidentally or coincidentally compares gender transition to aging.

Episode: Let's Talk About the Anxiety Freedom Can Cause

Nelson was introduced as the author of the beautiful books The Argonauts and Bluets, highlighting her reputation as a poet and essayist.

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She's the author of the beautiful books The Argonauts and Bluets.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

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Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

It was described as a love letter to the author's partner, who was transitioning, while she was pregnant, exploring queer sexuality and relationships in the context of heteronormative expectations.

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Did you read the Argonauts by Maggie Nelson?

— Episode: "Dark Gay Culture" (w/ Ruby McCollister)

Episode: "Dark Gay Culture" (w/ Ruby McCollister)

It was described as a love letter to the author's partner, who was transitioning, while she was pregnant, exploring queer sexuality and relationships in the context of heteronormative expectations.

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Did you read the Argonauts by Maggie Nelson?

She's got to read it.

Basically, it's I don't know. It's a whole book that's like a love letter to the writer of Maggie Nelson's partner. Partner. Harry Dodge who's like an amazing experimental artist in Los Angeles like a legend in Los Angeles.

And like the whole thing that she ruminates on in the book is she's like, it's interesting to like to sort of fall into some mental model of heteronormative activity while I have this human growing inside of me. Growing inside of me while I'm also queering sexuality and relationships.

And there's a sequel coming out. What? And it's Harry's perspective. Oh my God. You're going to lose your mind.

Episode: "Dark Gay Culture" (w/ Ruby McCollister)

It was described as a love letter to the author's partner who transitioned while she was pregnant, exploring themes of heteronormativity and queer relationships.

"

Did you read the Argonauts by Maggie Nelson?

Basically, it's I don't know. It's a whole book that's like a love letter to the writer of Maggie Nelson's partner, Harry Dodge who's like an amazing experimental artist in Los Angeles like a legend in Los Angeles.

Yes. And like the whole thing that she ruminates on in the book is she's like, it's interesting to like to sort of fall into some mental model of heteronormative activity while I have this human growing inside of me, growing inside of me while I'm also queering sexuality and relationships.

And it's so beautiful. And there's a sequel coming out.

And it's Harry's perspective.

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