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Earnestly
In honest, crystallizing language, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju reckons with her changing Body and the afterlife of trauma within the tangle of race relations, sexual politics, and family history. Earnestly collages texts from the artist’s transdisciplinary practice, modeling different lenses through which to navigate the social and emotional dimensions of Body dysmorphia, girlhood, and longing. Across all, Ilupeju celebrates embodied writing for its self-transformative power and for the gentle revelations made possible through its sharing. She welcomes the reader into her world and her Body as she attempts to escape what she terms ‘the house of hard distorting mirrors’ and move towards joy, presence, and connection. Along this journey, she finds a way into self-recognition that is prismatic—multivalent and refracting.
192 pages, Paperback
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August 16, 2024
‘Intuition has made a shelter in us. It told us the keys hide under the checkered doormat. We look for it and come up empty-handed. Through the window with a brick will have to do. The shards of glass glitter in the air, get into our eyes, but we cannot look away.’
December 13, 2024
Such beautiful and honest prose. Monilola delves into body-image and the growing pains of coming into adulthood with a candid and stark reflection. This kind of honesty is uncompromising – and it lingers. I enjoyed every page and will be coming back to this gem again and again.
December 6, 2024
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