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The fatphobia in “Julie” was actually insane 🫠

The first two stories were good but “Face of Disgrace” really freaked me out

"Every visit to another house, any house, seemed like a foray into the world of other people's joy."

“Nemoira came to her empty-handed and needy, wriggled wasplike into the fig flesh of Jude’s house and mind.”

"Hunched and humbled, she did not think it possible for her to be in this world - to be at peace, to be alone, to exist for no other purpose than existence itself."

“Foaming and raving, eyes rolling madly, she sympathized with women whose only medicine was an ice pick to the brain.”

"Jude wondered how it was that a house could be so unfriendly, whether the menace was foundational or if it was something tracked in on somebody's shoe."

I love Ida B. Wells

“I was Daughter of Dirk. I was Minion of the Crab Queen. I was in a full fever. I wasn’t a normal girl. I was supernatural. I was uncanny. I was magnificent.”

“Watch out Celia,” the doomed crab whispers, “or one day they’ll scoop out your innards and bake them and stuff them back in again.”

"I was trembly and on the brink of big feelings, and maybe I felt helpless, too, and unable to voice an opinion about what was going to happen next, but I wasn't scared."