Los Angeles Review of Books True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. She lives in Long Beach, where she teaches social studies to eighth-graders. a powerful, vital book about damage and the ghostly afterlives of abuse. She has toured with Sister Spit and her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. She's the author of Dahlia Season (2007, Manic D) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, Wish You Were Me (2011, Future Tense Books), and Painting Their Portraits in Winter (2015, Manic D). Myriam Gurba is a queer spoken-word performer, visual artist, and writer from Santa Maria, California. Sisterhood is powerful, but being mean is more exhilarating.Being mean isn't for everybody.Being mean is best practiced by those who understand it as an art form.These virtuosos live closer to the divine than the rest of humanity. Being mean to men who deserve it is a holy mission. Being mean to boys is fun and a second-wave feminist duty. We act mean to defend our clubs and institutions. This is a confident, intoxicating, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Gurba takes on sexual violence, small towns, and race, turning what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. True crime, memoir, and ghost story, Mean is the bold and hilarious tale of Myriam Gurba’s coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana.
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