5/25/2023 0 Comments Sick woman theory![]() ![]() There are no stairs whatsoever to the event space and we have a one-person, gender-neutral restroom. There is a paid public parking lot behind Skylight Books, and street parking. ![]() If there have to be novels, On Hell is what they should do."- Anne Boyer, author of Garments Against Women and A Handbook of Disappointed Fate This text will consume you."- Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn't Blue Fuck, I say, as NIN’s Starfuckers, Inc is playing in the back of my head and the swells of this world become the swells of my own blood pumping through my yet-to-be-corpse. How do we get there, this rooted, brutalized, devastating space where we are forced to experience the capability of language to create a world in which all the noise around you is distortion, escape is a splintered hope, and the performance of life is the performance of bloody meat, existence as persistently crossed and breath an interstitial dream of falling. ![]() ![]() Equal parts tender and brutal, romantic and furious, On Hell is a novel about myths that trick and resist totalitarianism. Johanna Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory, takes the ferocious compulsion to escape (from capitalism, from the limits of the body-machine, from Earth) and channels it into an evisceration of oppression and authority. On Hell transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, hacking itself away from contemporary society. ![]()
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