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Julietta Singh: No Archive Will Restore You (Paperback, Punctum Books) 5 stars

At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a …

Review of 'No Archive Will Restore You' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

c.w. basically everything - trauma, disordered eating, racism, queerphobia, misogyny

the body is the archive, because it is always imperfect and ever changing. And yet it holds onto everything.

A quote:

"I become ever more preoccupied with this notion of transformative touch between friends. With contact that cannot be reduced to the normative cultural paradigms – sexual and parental – of intimate touch. What kinds of touch live beyond these paradigms, making up dissenting communities? The touch I desire most intensely is the touch of the friend that folds me into collective alterity, that feels and shapes me as an anti-normative social body. A misfit thing held and felt by other misfit things."