Myr’s Reviews > Dinner on Monster Island: An Intimate Collection of Essays Exploring Queerness, Cultural Monsters, and Personal Growth > Status Update

"But the special thing about queer people is that even though we scavenge for crumbs, we're also the ones who leave them in our wake. A glance. A button. A cheeky reference. A subtle lyric. You can try to make us disappear, but we find ourselves in one another again, and again, and again."

"Film theorist Andrew Scahill says that queer spectators learn to be scavengers. I believe this is true and that we learn to scavenge early on. We read queerness into characters who are outcasts, who dress differently, who are bullied. We read queerness into that which is desperate, liminal - into monsters and ghosts if we have to. I spent adolescence hungry and aching, craving some mirror-morsel of myself."

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