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14 days left to register for my 4-week seminar on global queer literature. Every day until then I’ll share a writer that inspires the seminars. You can join the course in person if you’re in Lisbon, or online if you aren’t. https://twitter.com/sysh/status/1311607888482361344
Day 1: Pedro Lemebel, Chile.
Day 2: Carmen Maria Machado, Cuba/USA.
“I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
“I have heard all of the stories about girls like me, and I am unafraid to make more of them.”
― Her Body and Other Parties
Day 3: Ocean Vuong, Vietnam/USA
“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Because the sunset, like survival, exists only on the verge of its own disappearing. To be gorgeous, you must first be seen, but to be seen allows you to be hunted.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Day 4: Akwaeke Emezi, Nigeria
“When you break something, you must study the pattern of the shattering before you can piece it back together.”
― Freshwater
“When you break something, you must study the pattern of the shattering before you can piece it back together.”
― Freshwater
Day 5: Qiu Miaojin, Taiwan
“I knew that I loved you so much that it was like I was practically crying out: Here is the location of the soul I have cared for, and here is the source of all beauty and love, but how heavy, how painful, how heavy, how painful.”
“I knew that I loved you so much that it was like I was practically crying out: Here is the location of the soul I have cared for, and here is the source of all beauty and love, but how heavy, how painful, how heavy, how painful.”
This seminar is sold out. If there’s interest for doing another one in 2020 let me know and I’ll put you on a list.
(I’ll keep posting some of the queer writing that inspires the course for the next week or so).
