So nice to read a memoir from this extremely talented writer and thinker. I've read some of Wark's more academic work and was so excited to find out more about her. Her writing about dancing / raving is how I was first introduced to her and reading about her longer arc here was very satisfying. Of course, as an academic, she can tend towards the verbose or overwrought but for me, it was mostly welcome. I really appreciate a trans narrative from an older (i.e. not a millennial) woman's perspective. This book truly offers something special. Her format of letters, a style I sometimes find tiring, actually worked well for the material. Brava!

Wark has such a particular style of writing; so clearly thought-out and sharp whilst remaining lucid and readable in a way not achieved by many contemporary cultural critics and commentators. This book is no different, although it certainly carries a more personal quality which is extremely welcome and candid.

I'd read a grocery shopping list written by McKenzie Wark. Seriously though, looking backward to Raving and, before that, Reverse Cowgirl, Wark's texts make a rather heady mix of (auto)theory, (auto)fiction, and political manifesto that explode any solid ground that we may hold dear in our everyday lives, especially if some of us (not me though) are white middle-class cishets. In Love and Money, Sex and Death I loved the best those chapters constituting "Others" section, which are most explicitly theoretical though it's not like any of the others lack theory. It's Wark after all. "(To Veronica)" is most exquisitely rendered in a quasi-Socratic dialogue (and how else when one deals with the reversal of Platonism through femmunism) reminiscent of Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out. "(To Venus)" relates Wark's relations to Black trans feminism and I find it fascinating because of the historically different experience of race in the part of the world I live in - which got me thinking about how "our" historical experience and legacy of the Unaligned movement and self-governing socialism can be perhaps used in informing our contemporary trans queer lived experience. Eagerly awaiting for whatever next Wark might throw my way.