Torrey Peters, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones II

Posted: Mon, Feb 16, 2026

Today

• Inflect, chronologically [20 min]: 3, 5, 6, 8, 2, 4, 10, 7, 9, 1
• t4t [20 min]
  • (Erotic vs. political) vs. ero-political love: Are trans lesbians the Platonic ideal of political lesbians?
  • Can the straights love? chaps. 6–7
  • Is t4t possible?
  • t4Lexi: Love between Narrator and Lexi, “fuck t4t”?
• Forced to be free? [20 min]
  • Raleen’s reason for spreading the virus (chap. 4)
  • Plot twist: Narrator’s reason for spreading the virus (chap. 10)
  • Lexi’s reason for spreading the virus? (sole reference: chap. 2)
  • Success? Failure? Is the apocalypse better or worse for the dolls?
• Meta question: Is there any distance between queer love and a queer person’s love of queer people? [15 min]