Status Updates From Orlando

Chapter 4 - Up until Page 134

• Post Constantinople Chaos - He flees with Romany Gypsies living in nature
• She experiences a life without rigid class rules
• She realises gender changes how the world treats her
• The Romany eventually see her as too English; she doesn’t fully belong anywhere
• Returns to England as Woman
• Back in London, she confronts strict 18th-century expectation - marriage

Chapter 3

• Orlando is living it Large & Rich in Constantinople
• He falls into a mysterious deep sleep for days
• Chaos begins to unfold around him as he sleeps
• WAKES AS WOMAN - unbothered, calm & same soul
• No panic - Accepts the change instantly
• The Gender Rules Hit - Freedom & Safety Changes
• He is still Orlando now just as a Woman

What the hell even happened bro 😭

Existing as a black trans woman is being halfway through this fictitious love letter, mind you, exploring the transcendence of gender & the self while still coming down from an epistemic crisis that started when reading the very first paragraph of this book where Orlando recounts muscle memory convulsions of lynching Black people as a fond memory of his grandfather

Orlando’s revelations are great to read

Dnf

He’s off to Constantinople.

Yay I’m reading againnn. I’m enjoying myself and the lighthearted/whimsical writing style Ms. Woolf took on in this. Orlando has just become w o m a n.