RaveHearing Things\"In his massively instructive, entertaining, and insightful tome, the veteran journalist offers a much-needed corrective on how the queer canon of artists has been framed—and, in certain cases, denigrated—by the industry, politicians, the public, and critics (whose dismissive and sometimes homophobic reviews are quoted liberally—tea). Mighty Real is not a polemic, but the book’s dedication to depicting LGBTQ and allied musicians through the lens of queer history is exhilarating, an underline on the new ways even the most-written-about pop icons can be thought about even now.\
Britney Spears
RaveThe Los Angeles TimesCompelling ... She’s well aware of her circumstances, and her memoir reads like a long exhale. As if by chronicling the trauma she’s experienced she is finally able to let it go, or perhaps burn it all down ... It’s not a particularly uplifting read, though relief and rebellion course through it ... Much has been made of the \'bombshell\' revelations from this memoir...but vastly more interesting are the quiet revelations about herself ... The second half of The Woman in Me, which details Spears’ years in the conservatorship, reads like a feminist horror story — Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Goth classic The Yellow Wallpaper come to sinister life ... Deeply chilling.
