Whenever someone complains about how the second-person point of view just doesn’t work for them, I think they should give Jamaica Kincaid’s short story Girl a solid read.
This sequel continues the theme of found family from the first book, and is bursting at the seams with several themes common to a lot of disabled, queer, and trans experiences: dysphoria, dissociation and depersonalization, healing from traumatic childhoods, gender fluidity, to name just a few.
On a bright, late April day, Squinky walked up to the third floor of a typical
Plateau triplex and rang the bell. I put on a kettle and made a pot of jasmine
> Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical"
is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined
life.—Rebecca Solnit
I've been hearing the word apolitical
Pronouns, sexual attraction, bodies, parental acceptance, privilege and passing,
these are some of the topics in the conversation between Quark and Lex in the
videogame Conversations We Have In My Head by Squinky.
Trigger Warnings For The Film
* Drug abuse, drug paraphernalia
* Gore
* Death
* Trauma
* Non-consensual sex and non-consensual drug-related activities
Some of these concepts are described in varying levels of detail in this post.
(Photo
The opening night of the Vermont International Film Festival [http://vtiff.org/]
showcased this beautiful Swedish film set in 1982 Stockholm. Hedvig is a timid
Christian who plays the classical guitar masterfully. Bobo