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Writing down all of my thoughts with full honesty feels so raw. Facing the reality of pandemic, I have been trying to use morning pages/ free-writing routine as my coping mechanism but failed to do so. It made me think about my experience and how scary it is to write about it. As I read, Gay talked about her experience of writing trauma and how the media’s reaction can be insensitive and vulgar. It was only 39 pages, but the first half is hard to read. I needed about a month to finish this title.
I was expecting a “how-to” essay, but it was much more than that. It is also about writing collective trauma, as everyone on this planet is currently experiencing the Covid-19 pandemic.Īt first, I decided to read this essay because I thought it would be great to read a piece by Roxane Gay, while also reading something that can trigger my passion for writing. Her experience of teaching a course on writing trauma at Yale partly inspired this essay. It was released on the 11th of February 2021, for Scribd Originals. Therefore, I started easy by reading a relatively short piece by Roxane Gay, “Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language”. It’s not a school assignment, and no one is going to give me a ‘C’.
It took me months to realize that I’m allowed to start easy. Shouldn’t this be the moment that I have been waiting for? I used to berate myself harshly when I didn’t have the willpower to read Bad Feminist.
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Getting back to my old reading routine is not as easy as flipping a hand, even though this pandemic gives me a lot of free time. I have not read anything for fun in a couple of years. Unfortunately, now I have a different issue (or excuse): a very heavy reading slump. Talking about how amazing and lovely Scribd is would be another different topic, but this platform helps me to legally access Roxane Gay’s book. There is also the benefit of having a great UI/UX for the digital reading experience. Being able to spend around Rp80.000 a month on a variety of incredible books that I can read on either my phone or laptop is extremely affordable. I am genuinely so happy and so grateful for this platform, as it helps me to access great titles that I’ve been wanting to read for so long but can’t because imported books are expensive. That is how I found out about Scribd - a platform similar to Spotify but for reading books.
Now that my English is getting better and after the pandemic hit me hard, it somehow led me to the Indonesian book (lovers) community on Twitter. Well, besides that reason, I also could not enjoy the book because of my poor English. I even downloaded the pirated pdf, though the guilt made me ignore the fact that it was pirated. I was so intrigued when I read an article about a book titled “Bad Feminist” and wanted to know what was behind that title. From when I used to open my old, lame email every other day just to check out the newsletter from Thought Catalog. I’ve been wanting to read Roxane Gay’s book for a long time now.