Review of "The Breaks: An Essay" by Julietta Singh (Coffee House Press)

Abstract

Julietta Singh uses an epistolary tradition to meditate on pressing challenges in the contemporary moment. She fixates on a resounding theme: how must we break from existing systems to truly center the most vulnerable in our institutions and epistemologies? In a long-form letter to her six-year-old daughter, Singh reflects on queer life and architecture, family trauma, radicalization, and collective mobilization.

Keywords

• feminism
• queer
• ethnography
• parenting
• memoir
• queer theory
• feminist theory
• radical parenthood