“This would be a sexual autobiography if McKenzie Wark didn't blow up the assumption that sex and gender are binary and that the subject is one and indivisible. Inverted Cowgirl is a polybiography where desires struggle to exist beyond the borders of patriarchy and capitalism, but also of gay culture. The ingredients include: a room for sperm and anal sex, a room for glitter punk and drugs, a room for communist theory, and you, the reader, can add the rest.”
–Paul B. Preciado

Trans literature flourishes today to expand the ways of narrating experiences that until recently we barely knew how to name. McKenzie Wark evokes the first signs of femininity in her body hidden by the ambiguities of hippism and glam in the seventies, her failed attempts to be gay and straight, to become the artificial feminine object in her relationships with men or the feminine subject duplicate of his female lovers. These rituals of temporary exit from masculinity do not seek to reveal any truth about sex, but rather to pronounce its mystery to remind us that we never fully know who we are and that what we call "I" is nothing more than a set of misunderstandings.

Accompanied by a multi-quoted chorus that recreates ways of reading online while introducing us to the most vibrant production of new generations of queer writers, Reverse Cowgirl invents a genre to multiply genres: before memory or biography, this book it is an autoethnography of the opacity of the self.