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Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As she examines her life experience and traumas with great care, Delporte faces the questions about gender and sexuality that both haunt and entice her. Deeply informed by her personal relationships as much as queer art and theory, Portrait of a Body is both a joyous and at times hard meditation on embodiment -- a journey to be reunited with the self in an attempt to heal pain and live more authentically. Delporte's idyllic colored pencil drawings...
2) Playboy
Author
Publisher
Semiotext(e)
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Published in France in 2018, Playboy is the first volume of Constance Debré’s renowned debut trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer. The novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator’s descriptions of her first female lovers — a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior...
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