Recently I had occasion to chat with my pal Isaac Fellman (of Isaac’s Law) about Dead Collections, his latest novel released earlier this week. Here’s a condensed version of our conversation (if you boil the conversation gently for three hours, you’ll end up with dulce de leche).
"Embracing transition meant embracing the cycle of degradation and resurrection that’s essential to life." I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Gender-affirming surgery, though I want it, also feels like a kind of death -- at least to some of my past selves. (Oh no, is my inner child a TERF?) Transitioning during the pandemic makes death an unavoidable concept and also curiously liberating when I stop running from it.
"At the midpoint of fluorescence and dripping lies effluvium": A Chat With Isaac Fellman About Archives and Vampirism
"Embracing transition meant embracing the cycle of degradation and resurrection that’s essential to life." I've been thinking about this a lot lately. Gender-affirming surgery, though I want it, also feels like a kind of death -- at least to some of my past selves. (Oh no, is my inner child a TERF?) Transitioning during the pandemic makes death an unavoidable concept and also curiously liberating when I stop running from it.