“She was running for all those ordinary, fragile souls whose bodies had been shamed like hers. In them, she had found herself. And so she ran for them, for those who, like her, had found comfort only in cut-out posters of clownfish. Now they had a different poster they could dream about: an athlete, an international star, her body neither fully boy nor fully girl, but simply the body of Johanna Venter, Girl Wonder.” GenderGender RolesGender IdentityBody ShameBody Differences Book:The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories Source: The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories
“How would you like it if someone told you to cut yourself open and rearrange your body parts? That then you could be normal?” AppearanceBody ImageBody DifferencesPolydactyly Book:Skinny Source: Skinny