They're queers.Myriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word performer, visual artist, and writer from Santa Maria, California. Mean by Myriam Gurba is marketed as a nonction novel and a memoir that is also a. Sisterhood is powerful, but being mean is more exhilarating.Being mean isn't for everybody.Being mean is best practiced by those who understand it as an art form.These virtuosos live closer to the divine than the rest of humanity. The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development: Childhood and. Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay In the Dream House by Carmen Mara Machado Mean by Myriam Gurba. Being mean to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts.

Mean by Myriam Gurba Coffee House Press, 2017 16. It’s not a triumphant story of survival, rather it’s a defiant, hybrid text that refuses to let anyone off the hook and resists the falsity of closure. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. Mean is the story that gets told when the final girl is Mexican, queer, and mean. Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana.

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