This week's #zine #review is of "Queer Because I Say So: Recognizing Our Literary Elders" by Jules Ray!
There's a scale used in scientific research called "inclusion of other in the self" (Aron et al., 1992). In this scale, a participant is asked to to consider their relationship to another person, to a community, to society. Then they are shown a series of circles which interlink to varying degrees. They must decide which set of circles represents the relationship.
This zine reminded me of this scale. In recognizing queerness of literary characters, the zinester connects with them. I could feel a kind of closeness there. It reminded me that queerness can be a connection even while the world tries to make it a separation.
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