No identity is visible from just one angle. Corinne Manning explains the importance of Alison Bechdel‘s “double representation”:
It’s not that there are stories that are impossible to tell, just complicated—as storytellers we want to capture and express every nuance, to enable the reader, or the person listening to you, to fit something impossible, like the entire state of Washington in their mouth.
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