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
"I know myself insofar as I know I am not singular, that what I am in this moment is born out of everyone I have known" -A Year Without A Name
"Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me---so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins. Another meeting" -Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Through her relationships with other women, I can trace the evidence of Carson's becoming, as a woman, as a lesbian, and as a writer. There are so many crushes in a lifetime, so many friendships that mix desiring-to-have with wanting-to-be" -My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
"Now I think of sexuality and identity, gender too, as processes of trial and error. You have to find what works for you. You need a narrative with room for messiness, one that can accommodate veering toward extremes" -My Autobiography of Carson McCullers