"We are all the conquered and conquerors."
I was lucky enough to see Melissa Febos on a panel at Unbound Book Festival in April. Her words about heritage, addiction and identity were very powerful for me. Her father is a Wampanoag Indian who left her with nothing but dark skin and a heritage of addiction (her words, not mine). Her book "Abandon Me" speaks in part to the process of re-discovering oneself and looking into ones own darkness. The reading she did for the Unbound panel included this sentence: "We are all th
