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Love is an Ex-Country
Love is an Ex-Country | Randa Jarrar
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Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unravelling and hostile world.
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Love is an Ex-Country | Randa Jarrar
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What happens to young women whose adolescent sexuality is controlled, whose bodies‘ every movement is surveilled? Exit strategies and maps. We draw them up and go over the routes. We try the exits sometimes, at our own peril, too, because it‘s worth it to know that exiting could work. This would be like someone pulling open an exit door on an in-flight plane just to make sure it worked.
[strange to read this passage after seeing news above]

LeahBergen How timely! 😆 10mo
Lindy @LeahBergen It‘s such an odd thing. 🤷‍♀️ 10mo
batsy Wow. (Also, is it just me or are we reading about more incidents about people doing this on planes now?) 10mo
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