#wonder
I always get a little edgy when Wonder Woman is presented as this pristine feminist idol, because it’s a lot more complicated than than…
Symptoms of Being Human
by Jeff Garvin
When you start any novel, what do you notice first about the narrator? I imagine concurrent to style of voice, you make immediate assumptions about gender. I, in fact, often actively search for narrators of a certain gender. I imagine there are some readers out there that actively avoid narrators of a certain gender. Actually, the old chestnut that they like to sell writers is that girls will read stories about boys and girls, but boys are only interested in stories about boys. #alternativefact
So, then, what do you do when the narrator’s answer to “boy or girl” is a simple nod?
Riley is starting at a new high school halfway through the four arduous years, a terrifying plight for any narrator, but exacerbated more acutely by the fact that Riley identifies as “gender fluid,” - as male or female or anywhere along the spectrum on any given day. Compound this situation by a congressman father running for re-election and an accidental fame-by-blog-post scenario and you’ve got the makings of a modern cyber hero - and heroine - tale.
The book came out five minutes ago and has already been recognized as a 2017 Best Fiction for Young Adults Selection by American Library Association, among Most Anticipated Debuts by Barnes & Noble, and in 5 YA Novels You Need to Read in the First Half of 2016byHuffington Post. The list of notable mentions is exhaustively long this far. And why?
Well, it’s a fun read to be sure, but what is perhaps most notable about this book is that like all good fiction, it manages to implicate the reader in its exploration. Heck, the gender-fluid narrator is even self-critical. Why are we all so eager to categorize? To label? To break down? Is a thing defined less scary? More relatable? Or is it simply habit? A result of a lifetime of pronouns we’ve been fed and regurgitated? Or, it is more insidious? Is it segregated children’s toy aisles and blue and pink cake reveals and seventy-seven cents on the dollar? Why do we see the world how we do, and why do we cling so ferociously to our arbitrary classifications?
Symptoms of Being Human is destined to join the ranks of the young modern underdog tales like Wonder, Eleanor & Park,andCurious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. It’s a story we’ve never heard before from a narrator we didn’t know we needed - a narrator who invites us to see the world from a slightly less-defined perspective.
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is assembling in the sky
like a golden blue
plum so big
all the slices
made entire
people pull over cut
engines stand in the streets
like they could swallow it whole
these moments feel
like bending
over self
forehead to ankles
to murmur
I forgive you
to our own anatomy
this honey dust
this flaxen split
the body made open
to keep us close
within reach
a hummingbird flings
into orbit
its whole sphere
glows sapphire
it’s simple
it’s morning
what then
follow a prayer
in the throat there is a pit
grooved rift of our own frames
horizons arrivals this
upon us
yawning unlatched
sun drenched
drowning in an ordinary hum
flinging our forms into
whatever place will want us
next golden whole sliced
together swallowed blue
for now
that’s all we want to be
i crave the colour of her voice;
the tone of her timbre
i want a hint of the hue
she carries inside
“Can you explain me why are they calling you #Wonder?”
I think #Superman is in trouble.
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A current work in progress. This is my take on Wonder Woman. I’m going try and fix it up in Photoshop a bit but I kinda like the pencil drawing.
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Shawn Mendes (size 11US/45EU) - Original + my edit
WHAT A ✨BLESSING✨
Who else wants an entire collection oh my god
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The very fabric of life now, she thought as she rose, is magic.
In the eighteenth century, we knew how everything was done; but here I rise through the air; I listen to voices in America; I see men flying-
but how it’s done, I can’t even begin to wonder.
So my belief in magic returns.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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Meet Wonder Pug. This cute lil’ pup is here to stop you in your tracks and ask you, “What are you doing human?”
This print is part of a series inspired by the Mexican Loteria game. You know the game, but probably didn’t know it was a game. It’s kind of like bingo. Some of the more famous images from the game are the hand that say El Mano, or the devil that says El Diablo. There are many more images to come, but for now let Wonder Pug bring you hours of joy and giggles.
This is 11"x17" digital gicleé print comes on Epson Velvet Fine art paper and is available on my Etsy store here: https://etsy.me/2HZ6RFF
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stream WONDER <3
