{"id":49463,"date":"2022-06-16T11:12:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T15:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=49463"},"modified":"2022-06-11T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T22:35:06","slug":"body-language-writers-on-identity-physicality-and-making-space-for-ourselves-edited-by-nicole-chung-and-matt-ortile-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/body-language-writers-on-identity-physicality-and-making-space-for-ourselves-edited-by-nicole-chung-and-matt-ortile-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves edited by Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-49462\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/Body-Language-Nicole-Chung-BookDragon-529x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/Body-Language-Nicole-Chung-BookDragon-529x800.jpg 529w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/06\/Body-Language-Nicole-Chung-BookDragon.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nEditors Nicole Chung (<a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/all-you-can-ever-know-by-nicole-chung-in-christian-science-monitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>All You Can Ever Know<\/em><\/a>, 2018) and Matt Ortile (<em>The Groom Will Keep His Name<\/em>, 2020) present 30 essays that reveal how diverse bodies \u201cmove within (and against) expectations of race, gender, health, and ability.\u201d Gabrielle Bellot, a Black trans woman, impressively parallels Black violence and scuba diving in \u201cThe Year of Breath,\u201d while her suggestion of turning\u00a0<em>Scheherazade<\/em>\u00a0into a verb, \u201cmeaning\u00a0<em>to tell stories to survive<\/em>,\u201d becomes a theme for the entire collection.<\/p>\n<p>Bodies are vessels of empowerment despite adversity. Natalie Lima is a Big Beautiful Woman in \u201cSmother Me.\u201c Andrea Ruggirello appreciates an atheist miracle in \u201cOn the Camino de Santiago.\u201d Destiny O. Birdsong finds loopholes in \u201cSurviving Karen Medicine.\u201d Hannah Walhout stands (very) tall in \u201cAttack of the Six-Foot Woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wanting children highlights Karissa Chen\u2019s \u201cWhat I Did for the Chance to Have a Baby Someday,\u201d Maggie Tokuda-Hall\u2019s \u201cLittle Pink Feet,\u201d and Marisa Crane\u2019s \u201cIn Utero, In a Pandemic.\u201d Existing children cause understandable concern in Taylor Harris\u2019 \u201cA Variant of Unknown Significance\u201d and Austin Gilkeson\u2019s \u201cTeshima.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toni Jensen confronts violence against BIPOC women in \u201cWomen in the Fracklands;\u201c survivor Eloghosa Osunde won\u2019t play dead in \u201cDon\u2019t Let It Bury You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These smart, affecting, and vulnerable essays, chronicling a vast range of experiences, inspire and illuminate.<\/p>\n<p><b>YA\/General Interest<\/b>:\u00a0Many of the 30 essays will resonate with inquisitive, searching teen readers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Body-Language-Writers-on-Identity-Physicality-and-Making-Space-for-Ourselves-\/pid=9759357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;Nonfiction,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers:<\/strong> Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Editors Nicole Chung (All You Can Ever Know, 2018) and Matt Ortile (The Groom Will Keep His Name, 2020) present 30 essays that reveal how diverse bodies \u201cmove within (and against) expectations of race, gender, health, and ability.\u201d Gabrielle Bellot, a Black trans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142,21,197,426,199,107,404,20,6535,185,31],"tags":[89,10319,6608,6668,58,10,11,51,50,10318,129,8087,39,598],"class_list":["post-49463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-black-african-american","category-chinese-american","category-hapa","category-japanese-american","category-latinaox","category-memoir","category-native-american-first-nations","category-nonfiction","category-repost","category-taiwanese-american","category-young-adult-readers","tag-anthology-collection","tag-body-language","tag-bookdragon","tag-booklist","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-lgbtqia","tag-matt-ortile","tag-mother-daughter-relationship","tag-nicole-chung","tag-parent-child-relationship","tag-sexual-violence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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