ICYMI, I recently wrote about being misgendered, getting older, loneliness, and the novel The Goldfinch.https://agameofme.tumblr.com/post/187993344992/living-in-grievance-living-in-gratitude …
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Obviously I'm deeply concerned with social and emotional isolation, and with the ways that things like being trans can contribute to such isolation. However, I also know that narratives, including the narratives we tell ourselves, can shape our sense of what's possible.
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So there is an impulse at work here, particularly in the piece on The Matrix, to take this particular kind of piece, one I've written many times, as far as it can go, to break it, to force myself to write other kinds of stories. I don't know if it'll work, but it was time to try.
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I also touch briefly on Link's Awakening in my Matrix piece, for all you video game nerds. https://medium.com/@carolynpetit/the-pain-of-waking-the-matrix-at-20-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-and-my-journey-of-the-self-6f8dcb0811e1 …pic.twitter.com/5WqwHT4ErJ
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reverse matrix for all of us who never got to be young and fumbling when? http://medium.com/@carolynpetit/the-pain-of-waking-the-matrix-at-20-the-stories-we-tell-ourselves-and-my-journey-of-the-self-6f8dcb0811e1 …pic.twitter.com/fvxNbcodAe
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I need to rewatch this movie. Watched it when I was 14 and now I'm 25. LoL. I totally forgot the entire plot.
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