Females. Everyone is female, and everyone hates it

Females is Andrea Long Chu&;s genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and the punishing force of desire.
Drawing inspiration from a forgotten play by Valerie Solanas&;the woman who wrote the SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol&;Chu aims her searing wit and surgical intuition at targets ranging from performance art to psychoanalysis, incels to porn. She even has a few barbs reserved for feminists like herself. Each step of the way, she defends the indefensible claim that femaleness is less a biological state and more a fatal existential condition that afflicts the entire human race&; men, women, and everyone else. Or maybe she&;s just projecting.
A thrilling new voice who has been credited with launching the &;second wave&; of trans studies, Chu shows readers how to write for your life, baring her innermost self with a morbid sense of humor and a mordant kind of hope.