
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson: Why We Write
ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
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The Beauty of Purple Rain
"I wanted to be a diminutive, profuse, electric ribbon of horniness and divine grace," she writes. "Prince made it okay to feel what he was feeling, what I was already feeling" She describes how her sister became a dyke because they played instruments without self-consciousness. The pair were the first dykes either of them had ever seen.
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