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Callender (they/them)
Felix Ever After
(2020)
How can we imagine Black/trans/queer liberation? WHat are the terms/frameworks for imagining and enacting "liberation"?
C. Riley Snorton
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
(2017) - Black print handling of Lucy Hicks Anderson's trail
Felix Ever After
shows how buzzwords maybe hollow this out?
reframing intersectionality as unique and important: "now we have to deal with people like you taking our identity, taking our space" (is haunted by the "we will not be replaced" militant right/white ideologies - to coalignment of cisnormative and white supremacist ideologies to lock in bodies into structures of power)
how does the novel frame "privilege"? Callender's situated knowledge/lived experience authorizes the discourse?
Callender frames a sense of understanding of white frgaility/cis fragility and cultivating a bubble; I feel bad because he's ignorant
"Even though he's a white guy, and he has so much more privilege than i do, I realize that he'll never get to experience the world in the way that I can" (323) - the self-love, triumph moment. a self-aware protagonist; Felix has more appreciation for the world around him; the person HE HAS GROWN INTO; cultural richness and world-building (we might call this an epistemic resource)
ok, hi Audre Lorde's "The Uses of Anger"
liberation through the collective: "Once I start screaming I can't stop" collective affective draw across time, with joy, with tears, the ending of 335.
constant metaphors and images of connecting and interconnectivity (Captain the cat and using cats as ways to symbolize intimacy lining up with Felix's dad using his name pg 330)
"Loving and accepting and celebrating yourself" monologue (275) - there's an emphasis on mentorship; demystifies "the older generation" (repeated trope with Tully in the train); "more space to explore who they are" (276); also see transgender men in the movies and tv (so power of representations)
legal frameworks might secure rights (liberalism and civil rights), but how do we make change and sustain change in social terms; institutions? we don't trust those... (skepticism with the Dean of St. cats); what's line/to what extent is violence authorized by legal institutions
a drive of self-reflection
education as a way to self-liberation: self portraits and becoming: "The longer I sit here and sketch, the better my art becomes--and it helps to look at the people around me,
really
the afterlife of Felix Love:
https://www.kacencallender.com/post/felix-ever-after-changes
what are the queer intertexts that Callender puts together: Ariana Grande (big LGBTQ following; "Break Up with your Girlfriend"; stan Twitter);
references to
Cry counter? Feeling counters?: 3
what does the buzzword/rhetoric/language do or lose?
rushed ending?
useful way to dramatize becoming and identity; transformative quality of prose fiction: "Now there's a whole other definition to my name to wrap my brain around" (354).
but this is a growth story/coming of age and growing sideways.
more dad feelings: "If you don't always feel like a boy are you still my son" (331).
deleting the emails to get out of the "drafted" emotional state
WTF is up with Beacon?
Oops, grandequeen69
mediated identities on Instagram
metaphors and images of masking and not being able to hide/politics of self-fashioning and even in catfishing
the conspiracy theories of aliens and Austin's smile (154) - the "actual alien" being Feliz
sorry, what sort of Do Revenge bs reason???? ok, siri, pay Lady gaga's Bad Romance;
community is not monolithic
triangulations of desire: love-triangles, catfishing, etc
genre is a mystery, teen romance, docu-drama
the ending appeal to catharsis
use of
demiboy