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Messy Reinvention

Waymon Hudson
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Reinvention is not self-improvement. It is disobedience. Essays on queerness, deafness, and refusing to make yourself smaller so a room stays comfortable.

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    Deaf, queer storyteller who makes everything to be felt. Writer of dark literary horror in Silent Horrors, feral essays about rebuilding in Messy Reinvention, plus songs, a memoir, and a jazz musical about the Pansy Craze. Defiance, not inspiration.

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