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Year in Reading

A Year in Reading: Davey Davis

Davey Davis - 12.23.2020
If the world had its way, trans writers would only produce journeys, and two of the most interesting books I read in 2020 wouldn’t exist.
Davey Davis - 12.23.2020
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Reviews

The Affliction of Identity: Chelsey Johnson’s ‘Stray City’

Davey Davis - 3.20.2018 | 1
In an ideal world, just as we would allow writers’ work to speak for itself, so would we allow queer women to the be the arbiters of their own identities and experiences.
Davey Davis - 3.20.2018 | 1
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Essays

Feminism, Glenn Close, and the Curse of the Crazy Woman

Davey Davis - 6.29.2017 | 15
At a time when American women can ascribe to feminism with comparatively little fanfare, insisting on one’s own humanity as a woman is still an act of monstrosity—one with which ugliness and craziness, the two things that women are supposed to fear most, is always elided.
Davey Davis - 6.29.2017 | 15
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Essays Screening Room

Scissoring, Othering, and ‘The Handmaiden’

Davey Davis - 11.7.2016 | 19
What is it with straight people, especially straight men, and scissoring? Among the many sexual acts that queer women perform with each other, this one seems, at least in our experience, to be the one that fascinates them the most.
Davey Davis - 11.7.2016 | 19
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Essays

Instagram and the Pornification of Food

Davey Davis - 8.17.2016
With food porn, especially as found on Instagram, the cuisine is stripped of narrative and reduced to the visual, and then reduced again — like a hearty consommé — by repetition, including subsequent, nearly identical images.
Davey Davis - 8.17.2016
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