Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery

Nonlinear memoir that is only partially about brain injuries (and features just one chapter about sex). Liontas is a genderqueer author and professor who suffered three concussions in one year. Although they were each considered “mild” brain injuries, she experienced long-term, debilitating migraines, emotional dysregulation and mental confusion.

Liontas provides a smattering of the medical/social history and physiology of brain injury to accompany her personal experiences. The memoir also touches on anger, queerness, insomnia, writing, race, workplace culture, time, memory loss, and marriage. Some of the chapters are at best tangential to the titular subjects, and might have been better suited for a separate book. But Liontas' writing is powerful enough that I didn't really mind the digressions.