![]() ![]() Soon, we’re learning about the first boy to touch her-under her desk in junior high while the teacher looks away. ![]() These new plotlines expose the white heteronormativity of Chris Kraus’s novel and how ready audiences are to hear sharp cultural criticism from women of color and LGBTQ folks.Įnter Mean, which offers a lot about Gurba’s Mexican-Polish background, childhood, family, and playground race wars. ![]() Mean is for the I Love Dick crowd, but it’s decidedly more for the fans of the Toby, Devon, and Paula plotlines added to the TV series that uplift queer voices and women of color. Although it tells Gurba’s story, the book blurs traditional conventions of the memoir genre by weaving in poetry, feminist theory, and cultural criticism. Myriam Gurba’s Mean is a brutally honest memoir about sexuality, race, gender, and trauma in a small town. This article appears in our 2017 Fall issue, Facts. Subscribe today! ![]()
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