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• 1 media/Screen Shot 2023-07-27 at 11.22.58 AM.png media/Screen Shot 2023-07-27 at 11.28.38 AM.png media/Screen Shot 2023-07-27 at 11.22.58 AM.png 2023-07-27T18:24:19+00:00 MIRRORS 56 "That mirror wasn't accessible to me growing up. It was an utterly lonely place to be" -Redefining Realness plain 2024-02-18T03:26:42+00:00
  • "Looking into the mirror is of course a figure for the autobiographical act: autobiography is ostensibly anyway the literary act of self-reflection, the textual product of the “I” reflecting on itself" 
    -Jay Prosser, Second Skins
   
  • "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
  
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  • "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)
  • -A Year Without A Name, Cyrus Grace Dunham
  
  
  "Looking into the mirror is of course a figure for the autobiographical act: autobiography is ostensibly anyway the literary act of self-reflection, the textual product of the “I” reflecting on itself" 
  -Jay Prosser, Second Skins