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Posts Tagged: queer abuse

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Lindsay Merbaum

By Ina Roy-Faderman

October 28th, 2021

“It was like wandering through my own labyrinth.”

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Tags: Abuse, Carmen Machado, clytemnestra, debut novel, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, feminist, feminist horror, gender dysphoria, gender roles, gendered violence, Greek mythology, grief, Grieving, horror, In the Dream House, Ina Roy-Faderman, LGBTQ, Lindsay Merbaum, myth, mythology, nonbinary, Queens of Heaven and Earth, queer, queer abuse, sexual desire, The Gold Persimmon, The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project

Living the Unknown: Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House

Reviewed By A. Poythress

December 4th, 2019

I needed this book. Maybe you will, too.

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Tags: 2nd & Charles, a. poythress, Abuse, abusive relationship, Bloomington, book review, carmen maria machado, depression, domestic abuse, domestic violence, graywolf, graywolf press, Her Body and Other Parties, In the Dream House, Indiana, Lesbian, lesbians, LGBTQ, memoir, memories, queer, queer abuse, queer relationships, queerness, same-sex violence, suicidal ideation, trauma

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