Trauma Queen

by Luna Merbruja

Lovemme Corazón’s debut book, Trauma Queen, is a memoir documenting the struggles of being a child survivor of rape and abuse. Through the use of multi-genre writing (poems, prose, story-telling, etc), this book is a collection of years of journal/diary entries. Lovemme is unapologetically facing the taboo truths of what it means to be a survivor and how that trauma shapes their life.

Genres: Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, LGBT, Queer, Feminism, Transgender

216 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 2013

Reviews

[Naomi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book elicits empathy without being about educating. Their story was powerful and their writing was engaging. But mostly it was their story and I felt lucky just to get the book window into their life.

[Daniel Delfs · Rating 3 out of 5]

A moving autobiographical piece sharing the lived experience and (obviously) traumas of the author as a brown, neurodivergent trans youth. It became hard to continue reading, both on account of the heaviness of the topics, as well as the structural repetitiveness of the reports of Lovemme's life. Did like the multimedia parts, using excerpts from diaries, emails, etc.