A review by emilyinherhead
Panpocalypse by Carley Moore

3.5

An interesting story doing some fun things with format and self-awareness!

Also, some excellent quotes:

The whole country is in massive pain, both medicated and unmedicated. Collectively we are traumatized by the legacies of genocide and slavery, and since so many white people are in denial about this trauma, the grief and pain of it, we have an increasingly unwell country. (50)

When I begin writing I am a girl with crayons and newsprint, later with a diary and a small matching pencil, and for most of my adult life, I write about girls and women. The girl is the forgotten one, so easy to dismiss. But the girl is everything. (75)

At first I worry that I’m not queer enough when I kiss the straight cis men in the park because this is a thing that bi/pan people my age often feel or have been made to feel in queer spaces—that we are not enough. But I remember that this is what I do. I am capable of loving all genders and sexualities. What a gift to the world bi/pan people are and still we get so much shit for it, and are very hard on ourselves. (156)

What is a writer anyway, but a thrower of voices? What is a mother anyway, but a liar? (165)