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Ocean Capewell

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Born
in queens, ny
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Genre

Influences

Member Since
January 2008


ocean capewell used to get in trouble for answering the phone rudely when she was in the middle of writing a story. her parents’ friends were horrified at the snarled, "what??!!", not knowing what they were interrupting, not knowing how hard it is to get started again when you’re interrupted in the midst of inspiration. now she has a cell phone but misses being so completely wrapped up in writing that nothing came before it. she is trying to get back to that pure place: seven years old & writing in notebooks until her hand was sore, going so fast, trying to get it all down. genuinely not giving a fuck.

ocean capewell has been writing stories since 1987, poems since 1990 and zines since 1996. despite things getting thrown out, computers getti
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Average rating: 4.2 · 90 ratings · 17 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Most Beautiful Rot

4.13 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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high on burning photographs #3

4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008
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Dear Sophie, Love Sophie by Sophie Lucido Johnson
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Ocean and 25 other people liked jay's review of There Are Trans People Here:
There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt
"poetry wise this isn't my style. theme wise though i think that a lot of important topics were covered and i especially appreciated the afterword and the resources provided"
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We Can Do Hard Things by Glennon Doyle
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this ISN'T for reading straight through. i'm a therapist and at the end of our sessions, if we have time, i've been asking clients, "do you want some unsolicited advice from the universe?" and, if they say yes, i hand them this book to flip through a ...more
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Spent by Alison Bechdel
Spent: A Comic Novel
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a lot of fun. i loved the little details, like all of the parsnip-eating, non-binary menstrual products (including the divx cup, lolz), clarice & toni's cameo at the far mar, etc. i don't like goats IRL but the pygmy goats won my heart. i love how th ...more
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So Gay for You by Leisha Hailey
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genuinely hilarious at parts and a treat for l word fans.
Ocean and 7 other people liked Carmen Petaccio's review of Spent: A Comic Novel:
Spent by Alison Bechdel
"~4.5 stars~

one of the best books I’ve ever read about aging hippies coming out as 2/3rds of a throuple to their child after said child drops out of Oberlin because their asexual polycule imploded"
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The T Guide by Gigi Gorgeous
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i can see some people really loving this book, especially if you're a fan of either of the authors. a lot of the book is just their opinion on things, and their own experience. they say some things that are not objectively true (like "most trans guys ...more
The T Guide by Gigi Gorgeous
"Awesome introduction to transness for those who are questioning or not sure what their next step is. I wish I’d read this when I was 14!!!! I wish there had been more on trans history and a broader perspective of trans people (eg not all thin rich wh" Read more of this review »
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Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch
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" Lol i said that aloud too. But i thought that scene was awesome "
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Dorothy Allison
“Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant

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“... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary”
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“I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.”
Dorothy Allison

“dykes were put here to tip the scales! we have a very important job and i wouldn't trade it for the world. give me a choice between breeding, accelerated aging, living with an orangutan, and maid duty for life...or, autonomy, black boots, multiple orgasms, cats instead of kids, people who say what they mean, and nothing stopping me from doing whatever i wanna do...and guess which one i pick?”
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