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PrettyBy: KB Brookins Winner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award By a prize winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspectivethe tropes, the presumptionsPretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call
By: KB BrookinsWinner of the 2025 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award • By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.
Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.
“I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body,” Brookins writes. “Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I’m perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can’t change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says ‘female,’ and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean—to be a girl-turned-man when you’re something else entirely?”
Informed by KB Brookins’s personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency—whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as “other.”
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★★★★★ 5
They work!
Color: Gray, Size: Queen (2 Count)
They do keep my pillow cool!
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Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2025
★★★★★ 4
Interesting pillowcase that does run cool to the touch
To begin: I'm a 64 y/o woman who still gets hot flashes, despite air-conditioning and a fan blowing on me at night. It's the sheets off then blankets on routine that so many of us know. I ordered this pillowcase hoping that I would find some kind of relief in the night, even it was only for my head.
The fabric is very unusual. It's a silky nylon blend, very swishy and soft. It reminds me of luxury, expensive women's lingerie. It's extremely slippery, moreso when you have your head on it; there certainly won't be any resistance or pulling on the hair all night.
I washed it before using it, put it in a mesh bag to protect it from getting snagged. It washed and dried as good as new. One thing to note: because it is so slippery the pillow may want to slide a little out of the pillowcase.
I slept quite well and did not experience any heat or sweating on it.
The reason for the 4* and not 5* is the price, at almost $20 it is a bit pricey for a rectangle of nylon fabric. I could see if it were real silk, but it's not. Otherwise it's exactly what it purports to be.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2025
★★★★★ 5
The perfect cooling pillows!!
Photo taken after about half of the filling was removed and many months of use. Still my favorite pillows ever!
I absolutely love these adjustable cooling pillows! They keep me cool all night long (must use without a pillowcase for cooling effect.)
They arrived with enough filling to make them super firm and extremely thick. They took several hours to fully puff up. I removed about half the filling to make a more plush pillow which I prefer and they’re still thick and comfy. They offer the perfect amount of support. I’m actually sleeping better!
Bonus: I saved the extra filling and used it to stuff throw pillow covers.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Comfy!
I did have to take some stuffing out for my comfort. After that it is amazing! Love that the pillow is cool!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Great pillow, but…..
I love this pillow for its cooling and adjustability. The only issue is that the cover peels. These tiny nylon thread knots and pulls are annoying in the middle of the night. I do not think it will stop.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2026