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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic...
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More Dykes to Watch Out For...
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“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
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“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”
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“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure?”
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