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.
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Reading Notes on “A Closed and Common Orbit” by Becky Chambers
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.
A Tale of Two Dominique Pamplemousses
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 tea. The cat came out to greet
The apolitical fallacy
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 a lot recently, and I
A Short Review: Conversations We Have In My Head
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. Quark and Lex are former lovers, who
Trans Rights & Le Code Civil du Québec
If you are looking for concrete steps to challenge loi 35 au code civil au Québec and you want to skip all my exposition/blablabla, scroll to the bottom and/or click here. This post is billingual in the sense