The emotions are recognizable, even when the situation is not.
But I cannot begin to describe the scope of stories here, how often I laughed and cried and bled and related to it all. I had to wait for the term to finish before I could pick it back up and give it the attention it deserves. Trying to read them while juggling school felt sacreligious. I was doing about two stories a week, really letting them resonate. You have to sit with this one, like, really let the stories hit you and sit with them. I don’t feel more unsafe in a world that hates me because I’m black, hates me because I’m trans, hates me because I’m a woman, and hates me because I’m not a man just because you just started finally seeing it too.īut do you? Do you feel more unsafe? Does it frighten you to see the fragility of so many lives shattered by the negligence of an apathetic country? Does it concern you to be reminded of the systematic ease with which this machine can chew every rich morsel of your worth and spit out your body like a plaque when it no longer has any need for you?” But more unsafe? Like what, like this is new to me? Or at all? Like if I didn’t see all of these graphs and news stories and statistics projected around the stage, none of the threats, assaults, or comments I’ve experienced would have been enough? Or mattered as much? I feel so unsafe when trans women are murdered and forced to kill themselves.
So I’ll just settle for 3 stars, a nice midpoint. But over all I’m not sure how to rate an anthology when every story is different and by a different author. With that being said, there were stories here that I really liked. Unless they’re by the same author set in the same place or following the same character/s.
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