BAD LANGUAGE

In Bad Language, So Mayer blends memoir and manifesto as they explore the politics of speech, while looking at how language has been used and abused in their own life. What is the relationship between language and sexual violence? And how can we make ourselves up in language when words themselves are encoded by a dominant culture that insists we see ourselves as powerless listeners rather than active speakers? Examining the semantic traps of their multi-lingual childhood and taking in texts from the Torah to Grimms Fairytales, f...[Read more]