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v interested in the Kazakh film and all the jewish ones and the documentary about…, I saw this in its first run in the theater in Dupont Circle. Instead, the movie seems afraid to entertain even the slightest bit of doubt as to whether these repressed teens would be better off living as openly gay. Directed by Desiree Akhavan. Synopsis That’s how sweet we once were. Trapped in her hetero life, where no one would dote on her the way Cam had. While reading, I was constantly imagining what I would personally have done with “baddies” like Ruth and the Promise people. https://t.co/25RtoodpnM, — The Miseducation of Cameron Post (@campostfilm) July 4, 2018. I fell in love with Cameron and with this book pretty early on, just as I would’ve if I’d known her in real life. They want to dismiss everything else.” I believe that one of the powerful things character-driven fiction can do is offer narratives that refuse those kinds of dismissals, that kind of essentialism. It was like getting a visit from someone you think about often but aren’t sure if you should call. After her parents die in a car crash, she lives with her conservative aunt and her grandmother. Rather, Lydia firmly states, “There’s no such thing as homosexuality,” following that whopper up with, “Would you let drug addicts throw parades for themselves?” This is the kind of logic Cameron is up against, though she knows better than to debate her elders. This is her “reflective distance” from her own past, and utilizing that distance, that slightly older, introspective voice, throughout the novel, was all pretty strategic. Sometimes they just nod knowingly (you know how some people do that). How did you approach writing for an adolescent narrator without coming off as precocious? The film’s biggest misstep, and one that fully encompasses its lack of nuance, is how it handles Jared’s sexual assault. so what i’m saying is, maybe irene got married to a man, had a baby or two, was miserable, realized she was in love with her best friend, got a divorce then started working at a big queer website with a bunch of other queer women and now she has two dogs and a girlfriend. Thanks for reading the book and commenting here and think of me the next time you’re eating an apple grande, yeah? I also haven’t read the comments. (Though if I look at pieces of my writing from my late teens, early twenties, that style—some of my preferred usages of technique, that is, my stylistic tics, are already emerging.). I especially love THE HUMOUR in it, which hasn’t been touched on extensively yet. it was extremely difficult after [his] experience to consider gay sex as anything other than rape. I’m envisioning tube socks and cardigans, Either way, point me to it. Pingback: Review: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’ (Book) by Emily M. Danforth – The Fairy Dust Book Blog. While I enjoy hearing these details of what happened to Cameron next (and please do write that sequel or short story!) I mean, if she wanted to hit the nail squarely on the head then it’s, what, an episode of The L Word? But they are interrupted when Cameron's homecoming date Jamie discovers them. It was my first novel and it had been bubbling away inside me for a very long time, its points of inspiration are many. ALSO ALSO so excited for a mix tape, seeing that my car does not have a CD player. Was that some kind of interesting symbolism? The Miseducation of Cameron Post, with its lesser-known actors and limited release, is targeted to queer audiences who will likely seek it out for themselves, and will appreciate a more complex story about abuse and queer resilience that doesn’t give any easy answers. Especially with the setting in Montana, referencing the (real, longer) history of the land and people, whose attitude toward non-binary genders was so positive, seemed very at home in the story, and was a nice contrast to the senseless Christian pseudoscience of the camp. I HAVE to read this book. Thanks, Emily, for the time you spent answering all these questions. Thank you for reading this book, and for talking about it here. Compare Cameron Post’s willingness to untangle the internalized struggle within Reverend Rick with Boy Erased, which refuses to engage with Victor Sykes on any level beyond his status as a villain. There are some changes between the book and the movie, if you’re the kind of person who wants to prepare themselves now. But I would immediately pick it back up, and go through whatever it was that felt like “too much,” and sob and laugh and be so glad I didn’t leave those feelings for another day. But she does not receive the sympathy afforded to Cameron and her friends; that’s reserved for her brother. What would have given her story some edge: the idea that Cameron might actually believe she needs saving. – because that’s the piece that they need to key in to. I hope 2012 Cameron Post has a wonderful partner that she loves and a few cats, listens to the Indigo Girls and Chris Pureka, and still loves movies. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! I read “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” all in a heady four or five hours on a Monday afternoon, haven been given the day off after driving home all night from a work trip. It’s always been important to me that each successive novel I write take a new approach in terms of structure, in terms of construction (and of course in terms of plot and content), though undoubtedly some themes I’ll return to again and again. The Miseducation of Cameron Post’s success stems from how minimalist and yet sophisticated it can be in offering a dramatic rendering of of … I read all kinds of books from various practitioners of these therapies (and ordered materials directly from Exodus International, an organization that’s really changed its rhetoric in recent months, but that remains in its function as a referral network for many ex-gay ministries—despite that even they have now mostly parted ways with that term); I also spent hours and hours combing the websites and blogs of these ministries and practitioners, and also folks who themselves claim to be “ex-gay” or who have just spent time on the receiving end of conversion/reparative therapy, (And I had one on one conversations with many of these people, in chat-rooms or via email.).

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