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WHERE THE MUSIC PLAYS: ON TORI AMOS BOOTLEG WEBRING BY MEGAN MILKS AND LOCATING QUEER AND TRANS IDENTITY IN ONLINE FANDOM’S ARCHIVES

Megan Milks traces the origins of their queer and trans identity in a coming of age memoir about trading Tori Amos bootlegs at the dawn of the internet age. Anyone who logged onto the internet in the mid-nineties, whether through AOL or a service like CompuServe or Prodigy, engaged in the practice of authoring oneself. …

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Loving

When I was 15, my mother fell in love with a man who was not her husband, who was not my father. The man was in every way the opposite of her husband, my father, a Chinese immigrant with a Ph.D. in political science. The man my mother fell in love with was a white …

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