This is a great piece, but it ended just when I felt like it was getting going. I hope you choose to write further on the last few paragraphs: the consequences of being defined "out of the ordinary" from birth, and why it could be valuable to make that extra "concerted effort" to be defined as Weird.
Maybe in another piece; I mostly just wanted to write about weird girl fiction and the lack of Black and brown women in the space, but maybe I'll expand later once I've done some more reading + Percolating!
This is a really good post. I really appreciated the voice and a lot of the points you made. It’s really frustrating living in a reality where white girls try mushrooms once and think they’ve like transcended this fucking reality and that they’re just the weirdest girls to be known and it’s just like I know 20 white girls like you like literally relax Britney.
“their eyes were watching god” meant so much to me as a teenager and held up when i re-read it as an adult. thank you so much for highlighting this book!
Chlorine was my favorite book of 2024! An amazing analysis of the "weird" genre and how it is defined and packaged primarily for white main characters. Thought provoking!
This is a great piece, but it ended just when I felt like it was getting going. I hope you choose to write further on the last few paragraphs: the consequences of being defined "out of the ordinary" from birth, and why it could be valuable to make that extra "concerted effort" to be defined as Weird.
Maybe in another piece; I mostly just wanted to write about weird girl fiction and the lack of Black and brown women in the space, but maybe I'll expand later once I've done some more reading + Percolating!
This is a really good post. I really appreciated the voice and a lot of the points you made. It’s really frustrating living in a reality where white girls try mushrooms once and think they’ve like transcended this fucking reality and that they’re just the weirdest girls to be known and it’s just like I know 20 white girls like you like literally relax Britney.
“their eyes were watching god” meant so much to me as a teenager and held up when i re-read it as an adult. thank you so much for highlighting this book!
i have been having this train of thought for so long, never thought i’d see it put into words. brilliantly written, thank you 🤍🤍
Chlorine was my favorite book of 2024! An amazing analysis of the "weird" genre and how it is defined and packaged primarily for white main characters. Thought provoking!
Kat Von D is actually mexican. Wanted to clear that up but great work! Saying this as a weird girl, I feel seen🥰
unsurprisingly, all the best Weird Women fiction I've read has been written by POC and queer women
I love the reading list added! Weird changes context so much I’m glad there were some boundaries added to it for this post.