well. I wrote a book! and it’s coming out on 28 July 2022, so... tomorrow.
This book is built of stories and provocations—like the birth of a pearl, it transforms that which irritates, layer by layer.
Through speculative fiction and critical essays, Pear Nuallak explores what happens when messy, desiring bodies collide with the hard edge of power. The world’s neat categories are unmade and rewritten, revealing that racial capitalism’s myths are just as much fantasies as Thai bird princesses and transgender magic.
Moving playfully across folktale, horror, satire and critique, Nuallak examines how different beings are formed politically, bodily and emotionally. We discover interdimensional fungi resisting colonisation, queer monsters living on Hampstead Heath, and a mysterious canal running through the ruins of capitalism into interstitial realms. We test the borders of queer diasporic nationalism and take apart the racially melancholic memoir. In this fiery yet delicate collection, we aren’t bound by truth, but flow with it into new worlds.
do u like:
lesbian re-tellings of thai folktales where all the gays are bad
mushrooms
stories where everyone is trans and nobody makes good decisions
london
Genders
...?
do u hate:
capitalism
the state and its armour of coercion
london
Genders
...?
then you might like:
my book
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This book could only exist with the support of Hajar Press, a small independent press by and for PoC who desire beautiful books with a political edge. If you want more books like mine, please support the press—my publisher was very open to experimental ideas, edited my work with great care, and we’re now sharing it with the world!
N.B. if you are outside the UK you can get my book as part of a bundle! if u have questions about ordering pls contact the publisher directly~
