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A review by storytold
Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead
4.25
4.5—Outstanding essays focused on embodiment: in land, sexuality, kinship, language. Any attempt at analysis from me is doomed to fall short; had the wonderful experience of formulating analysis and then having it systematically taken down on-page in a subsequent essay. Writing is beautiful, detailed, evocative, visceral. Plenty of content warnings: colonialism, sexual violence, eating disorders, genocide, death of kin. This is a wrenching, personal biotext well worth reading—particularly slowly.