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Dangerous Families : Queer Writing on Surviving by a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore Mattilda is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Queer survivors piece together the clues to discover their own lives! Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving goes beyond the recovery narrative to create a new queer literature of investigation, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six stories illuminate the reality of growing up in fear, struggling to rebuild lives damaged by sexual, physical, and/or emotional abuse. The book explores how abuse turns queer survivorsmale, female, and transgenderedinto healers, heartbreakers, and homicidal maniacs, presenting brilliant stories that sear and soar. Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving addresses all forms of abuse head-on, representing a cross-section of queer survivors in terms of race, class, ethnicity, education, origin, sexuality, and gender. Contributors use their own life experiences to create a book that takes back control from well-meaning outsiders, as they recount the daily struggle to overcome the damage done to their minds, bodies, and spirits in a world that denies their gender, sexual, and social identities. From the editor: Dangerous Families consists entirely of writing by survivors of childhood abuse. That's rightno therapists analyzing our p

Who reads Dangerous Families : Queer Writing on Surviving?

Author

a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore Mattilda

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136572500

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Memoir