Lucia Osborne-Crowley: My Body Keeps Your Secrets Silke Otto-KnappThe Indigo Press, 2021, softcover, 303 pages, 13 x 21 cm Lucia Osborne Crowley, author of I Choose Elena, writes about the secrets a body keeps, from gender identity, puberty, and menstruation to sexual pleasure; to pregnancy or its absence; and to darker secrets of abuse, invasion, or violation. The voices of women, trans and non binary people around the world, and the author's own deeply moving testimony, cohere into an immersive polyphonic memoir
Drawing on a wide range of cultural references from the past two decades
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while considering the necessity of visibility for political subjecthood
revisiting images that were created through a racialized lens as well as on digital platforms such as Instagram and YouTube
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debt-ridden dependent economies with huge disparities between rich and poor
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perhaps grief is what makes us human―and while its pain scrapes our wounds