Excerpt: Did we need Freud to understand that cutting off her long locks, the ultimate signifier of her hyper femininity, was akin to taking a razor to her breasts, to dissociate from the parts that trapped her? Â
Excerpt: Sometimes you create a monster and are proud of the havoc it wreaks upon the world. Sometimes you create a monster and watch it do its thing and then realise that it has just turned around and is about to devour you.
Excerpt: It is a particular irony of the times we live in that a woman of colour helps to suspend any ongoing awareness of the deathliness of American history by retelling her personal trauma.
