Rants and Raves: How to Swallow Teeth: the Queerness and Beauty of the Grotesque in K-Ming Chang's "Mariela" by Reia Li

“As I grew up, I started to purposely do things that people found disgusting. I once goaded my friend into daring me to eat a piece of rubbery white dried gum on our school’s sidewalk. Another time, with little provocation…”