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A review by candelibri
Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves by Matt Ortile, Nicole Chung
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
What an excellent and VARIED collection!!
This is my first experience to organically come into contact with first-person experiences of lockdown and how ppl responded to it. Not every essay is about it - maybe a handful deal with it directly and one or two reference it tangentially - but it made me realize how much of the pandemic I had either purposefully or indirectly blocked out that time period or just avoided it altogether. (It may be because it doesn’t feel like it’s ever “ended” to me, so reading about it seems jarring but that’s a reflection for myself on another day)
This is my first experience to organically come into contact with first-person experiences of lockdown and how ppl responded to it. Not every essay is about it - maybe a handful deal with it directly and one or two reference it tangentially - but it made me realize how much of the pandemic I had either purposefully or indirectly blocked out that time period or just avoided it altogether. (It may be because it doesn’t feel like it’s ever “ended” to me, so reading about it seems jarring but that’s a reflection for myself on another day)