
Shelley Wong (Of Quietness, Fire Island, and Looking at Each Other)
Of Poetry Podcast
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Writing Notes - The Story Behind the Story
I think there's just those ambivalence throughout about quietness and sanctuary, but also resistance or subversiveness. So that can come out in different ways. I was binging Sally Rooney and I watched normal people and I was amazed by the way, one of the main characters would respond with a lot. It came across that they were like not, they were acknowledging, but they weren't quite taking the bait to that. There was that,. The feminine gaze that we mentioned earlier to, there was like that tick talk or it was all about interpreting like, it was like a femme person's like bodily reactions without saying anything.
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