![]() The truth is, intimate partner violence – physical, psychological and sexual – is an all-too-common experience for LGBTQ people. By contrast, Machado’s collection offers some of the best representations I’ve read of abuse in relationships where there are no men. ![]() That gut-clench, numb-handed, hide-the-knives kind of fear the narrator experiences in the story Mothers as a shadow passes over her girlfriend’s face: I knew that fear.įor all the work done by #MeToo since 2017, it’s still an overwhelmingly straight movement. When I first read Carmen Maria Machado’s debut, Her Body and Other Parties, I had a flint-strike of recognition. There is power in naming what happened to us. Title: I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World.21, 2019, offers some of the best representations I’ve read of abuse in relationships where there are no men. The memoir from Carmen Maria Machado, seen here on Nov. ![]()
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