Queer x Trans Memoir: In Sight of an Embodied HistoryMain MenuWelcome to the ExhibitQueer x Trans* Memoir: In Sight of an Embodied History. Rhyan WarmerdamThe Memoirs"I was reaching for an embodied history, a past I could touch” -My Autobiography of Carson McCullersThe Map"Places are never just places in a piece of writing...Setting is not inert. It is activated by point of view” -In the Dream HouseThemes"Opposites can be transformed into each other" -Manuel De LandaTheoretical Framework and Critical Reflections"I’ve composed this memoir as a way to understand the fragments in relation to one another" -Jan ClausenWorks CitedRhyan Warmerdamd653787cdc72137b9ef84f52d431133c771ca9b7Rhyan Warmerdam
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"As Medusa, I wrote about refusing to look at myself in the mirror lest I turn myself to stone" (41)
"Standing in front of the mirror, my reflection and I were like rival animals, just moments away from tearing each other limb from limb” (116)
-How We Fight For Our Lives, Saeed Jones
"By far, the most horrible thing about this glass bar, this cellophane palace in which I currently sit, is the fact that everywhere you turn is a reflective surface" (319)
-Punch Me Up to the Gods, Brian Broome
"From that point on I had a semi-addictive relationship to mirrors. I left class as often as I could just to look at myself. When other girls came in, I pretended I'd been washing my hands. I couldn't walk by windows without following my reflection, a doll moving along next to me" (17)