idk, i usually don’t look too much into a creative work’s philosophical/political/sociological implications unless the work is specifically meant to address it—think poor things (yorgos lanthimos) or get out (jordan peele)

- more like character studies over time than a real story
- minus 0.5 because of the abrupt ending. didn’t hate the abrupt ending, but was disappointed because i wanted more
- lovely, nuanced, and academically & creatively interesting look into the commodification of art and artists

was excited to read a unique take on the plague-infects-all-men apocalyptic genre and was not disappointed at all

felker-martin weaves in pop culture references and contemporary trans jargon without closing off the first person narratives to the average reader

Here’s rhe link

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The irony is that LA got their water in the 1930s when the Metropolitan Water District lobbied for building the Parker Dam and diverting the water. The dam flooded the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation and forced them onto the Colorado River Indian Reservation.