Sarah Cavar's Reviews > Stag Dance

Stellar — even better than Detransition, Baby, inasmuch as this collection took itself seriously as a trans literary intervention, a catalog of complex, contradictory, and often challenging experiences both lived and speculated upon. Peters has truly mastered the short story, and this is the form in which she most shines — every piece in this collection sticks in my memory like a blade and shines on its own. Taken together, Stag Dance has mapped sites of trans and transed (because many of these stories index trans less as a singular identity and more as an orientation or set of lifeways) survival, pain, and lust that that I have rarely, if ever, seen on the page before. Just excellent.