About Sarah Mittermaier
I’m a researcher and I’m fascinated by gender. If you’d like to support my work, please consider purchasing a paid subscription, which gives you access to monthly book-club meetups on Zoom, weekly media digests (complete with articles, art, podcasts, tweets, and music), and paid-only posts like:
The 51st way to leave your lover
From the archives: Female-to-male transsexualism
Sadists and masochists
Talking about the female body
“Sketch, Erase, and Sketch Again! ”
La vie quotidienne over at r/FTM: "A place for the guys"
My review of Whipping Girl
Appeasing the invisible audience
“Woman, you have said enough to burn ten heretics”
Ceci n’est pas un culte
77 square miles surrounded by reality
“Quitting isn’t an option”
The bad gender friend
Neil Gaiman’s dark gift for normalization
Message in a bottle
Now what? Some reflections on my time in graduate school
What if I’m faking it?
“I still hate that I just want to be everybody else”
How is it that so many bonds that did not seem fragile broke?
The silence of the professional grown-ups
Hooked on fandoms
My review of Bad Sex
The story and the truth
Learning it the hard way
And the woke philosophy bro emails parts one and two
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