STAY

Sarah Leamy

Description

STAY is a hybrid visual story of a British tomboy & clown negotiating place/identity, trauma/neurodiversity, friendship/play, sexuality, and violence. Mixing illustration, photography, and narrative non-fiction, this experimental work transcends the binary, bravely imagining a world that makes space for all of us. What happens when an awkward and shy tomboy doesn't always feel safe at home or at school? Leamy has fantasies of another life—and at 18 she finally takes flight. She leaves her small town to study languages and migration patterns in London before setting out with a rucksack, teddy bear (John), and juggling toys to hitch across Europe and the States. Leamy begins to wonder: Will she ever find her people, her place, her purpose? Or will each new home be forever as inconsistently hospitable as the first?

Origin Stories #1

 

I was not funny. 

 

No, I was serious, shy and a tomboy, one who was bullied or ignored all through middle and high school in small town England. I read the Famous Five, imagining myself as George. I wandered my gran’s farm with her retriever, Jesse. Mum and I used to talk about the books we’d read while eating baked beans on toast, sitting at the wooden table under the kitchen clock. 

 

On Tuesdays at six, Dad and I sat in the two armchairs, cats on our laps, munching on apples as we watched Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd. 

 

My formative years were silent.

Contents

vii Prologue: A Decade of Denial

 

1 Part I: Backwards

 

 

29 Part II: Towards

 

 

67 Part III: Away

 

 

103 Part IV: Both

 

 

131 Part V: A Coda of Sorts

 

 

138 Further Readings

140 Acknowledgments

141 About the Author

Sujets

• LGBTQ+ Studies
• Personal Memoirs
• LGBTQ+
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Memoir

Informations

• Publié par: Madville Publishing
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781956440447
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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