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‘Fanged and feathered’, Laura Villareal fights against expectations imbedded in her existence - the expectations bound in being a woman, being queer, being Latinx - and claws her way to her own identity.

Table of Contents
  • Girl’s Guide to Leaving
  • Trapping Season
  • The Conditions for Existing as Proposed by X, Y, & Z (What Makes Sense, What’s Safe, What’s Productive)
  • Before Skipping Town
  • Sardine Spine
  • The Long Trajectory of Grief
  • Afterwards
  • I Still Check for Monsters Before I Go to Bed
  • Baby Teeth
  • Outgrowing a Home
  • Desert Note
  • The Astronomer’s Daughter
  • Crush
  • Home Is Where the Closet Is
  • Inside the Foxhole
  • Inside All the Places I Can’t See
  • Down By the Water
  • Slash-and-Burn
  • If I Invited You to Love Me
  • Mother // Monster
  • Thanksgivings
  • Heart Attack
  • Curas & Dichos
  • My Worries Have Worries
  • Uncertainty with Fish Scales
  • Solar Eclipse // Myself In Orbit
  • (My)thology
  • A Bedtime Story About the Heart
  • Ending in Contrition or Resignation
  • When Joy Split Open
  • Seeds
  • Boiling Puffins
  • 8 Chickens in a Papier-M ché Human: A Bedtime Story
  • Before You Visited
  • Acknowledgments

Girls Guide to Leaving

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      Publisher: MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780299336844, 978-0299336844
      ISBN10: 0299336840

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      ‘Fanged and feathered’, Laura Villareal fights against expectations imbedded in her existence - the expectations bound in being a woman, being queer, being Latinx - and claws her way to her own identity.

      Table of Contents
      • Girl’s Guide to Leaving
      • Trapping Season
      • The Conditions for Existing as Proposed by X, Y, & Z (What Makes Sense, What’s Safe, What’s Productive)
      • Before Skipping Town
      • Sardine Spine
      • The Long Trajectory of Grief
      • Afterwards
      • I Still Check for Monsters Before I Go to Bed
      • Baby Teeth
      • Outgrowing a Home
      • Desert Note
      • The Astronomer’s Daughter
      • Crush
      • Home Is Where the Closet Is
      • Inside the Foxhole
      • Inside All the Places I Can’t See
      • Down By the Water
      • Slash-and-Burn
      • If I Invited You to Love Me
      • Mother // Monster
      • Thanksgivings
      • Heart Attack
      • Curas & Dichos
      • My Worries Have Worries
      • Uncertainty with Fish Scales
      • Solar Eclipse // Myself In Orbit
      • (My)thology
      • A Bedtime Story About the Heart
      • Ending in Contrition or Resignation
      • When Joy Split Open
      • Seeds
      • Boiling Puffins
      • 8 Chickens in a Papier-M ché Human: A Bedtime Story
      • Before You Visited
      • Acknowledgments

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