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Dec. 6th, 2022 05:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cafenowhereMy first editing shift for Strange Horizons was in September, and the first of my selections went live yesterday: "Statue of David with Top Surgery Scars" by Devin S. Turk. This poem was pretty much an instabuy. I loved it the first time I read it and I still love it for the way it makes me rethink the statue of David and the story of David and Goliath. How different would history and culture be if David, the statue or the character, was trans? It also makes me wonder about the untouchability of sculpture in museums and how that untouchability transfers to the subject of the sculpture. And can we truly understand a work if we can't touch it? What if we can't see ourselves in it? In addition to all the questions it awakens, this poem has a sense of humor. I delight every time in the image of the "I" of the poem ducking under the velvet ropes, armed with a bottle of nail polish. I feel very lucky to have been the acquiring editor of this poem.
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