1000 Coils of Fear
A story spanning four generations in Germany, reflecting on racism and privilege and what family means to queer people, is the book championed by New Generation Thinker Tom Smith.
As she travels the world and prepares to become a mother, the narrator of Olivia Wenzel鈥檚 novel reflects on her upbringing as a queer, Black woman in a white family, with her mother, a rebellious East German punk who was mostly absent, and her grandmother who was loyal to the socialist regime. Her father, an Angolan student, left shortly after she was born and her twin brother died when they were 17. For Queer History Month, New Generation Thinker Tom Smith looks at the ideas of queer family life explored in 1000 Serpentinen Angst, now available in an English translation by Dr Priscilla Layne as 1000 Coils of Fear.
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