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A review by smtvash
Don't Cry for Me by Daniel Black
4.0
Finished this right before listening to Kendrick Lamar's new record and watching the latest episode of Atlanta.
Three modern pieces of media (across three different mediums) that tackle homophobia and imposed trauma within the community. These conversations are finally being had and acknowledged.
Don't Cry for Me is cathartic in rough ways, it is a very empathetic look into why a person would behave the way they do, complicated by the fact that this person is family.
Tackling the intersectionality of racism, homophobia, systemic oppression, and generational trauma. What can we understand? What can we forgive?
For how many generations have we destroyed each other to what end.
It's painful stuff with no easy answers and no clean clear cut morals. The most difficult of "it's complicated".
Hurt people hurt people.
This was a novel that acknowledged that pain head on. I really hope these cycles break.
Three modern pieces of media (across three different mediums) that tackle homophobia and imposed trauma within the community. These conversations are finally being had and acknowledged.
Don't Cry for Me is cathartic in rough ways, it is a very empathetic look into why a person would behave the way they do, complicated by the fact that this person is family.
Tackling the intersectionality of racism, homophobia, systemic oppression, and generational trauma. What can we understand? What can we forgive?
For how many generations have we destroyed each other to what end.
It's painful stuff with no easy answers and no clean clear cut morals. The most difficult of "it's complicated".
Hurt people hurt people.
This was a novel that acknowledged that pain head on. I really hope these cycles break.