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caseythecanadianlesbrarian's review
4.0
Portable Homes, collected by Lexie Bean, is quite unlike any other book I’ve read. Like a lot of other collections showcasing the work of different writers, there were some whose writing I liked a lot, and others that didn’t really do much for me. That’s kind of standard for anthologies; the thing is, what’s really interesting is that I’m not sure it’s really the point that some of these pieces didn’t do anything for me; the letters in this book are the kind of writing that is less for readers than it is for the writers themselves.
That’s because Portable Homes is a collection of letters by survivors of domestic abuse to different parts of their bodies. It’s a powerful way for these people to reclaim their bodies. You can check out this great interview on Autostraddle with editor Lexie Bean and her co-organizers Lisa Neumann and Caroline Mills, where they talk about the history of the “Attention: People With Body Parts” multi-media project. In that interview, Bean specifies that their definition of domestic violence is this: “domestic violence is violence within a place that should feel close and safe.” ...
That’s because Portable Homes is a collection of letters by survivors of domestic abuse to different parts of their bodies. It’s a powerful way for these people to reclaim their bodies. You can check out this great interview on Autostraddle with editor Lexie Bean and her co-organizers Lisa Neumann and Caroline Mills, where they talk about the history of the “Attention: People With Body Parts” multi-media project. In that interview, Bean specifies that their definition of domestic violence is this: “domestic violence is violence within a place that should feel close and safe.” ...
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