‘Socialites’ is a story that first appeared in matchbook, and which I adapted into a broadside for the Queer Communities in Print Portfolio organized by Corinne Teed and Jaime C. Knight for the 2014 SGCI Conference. The portfolio, which includes contributors such as Thea Gahr, Miriam Klein Stahl, Patrick Reed, Edie Fake, Dutes Miller & Stan Shellabarger, and many others, has since gone on to be featured on
Printeresting and exhibited at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery in San Francisco and Airspace
Gallery in Philadelphia.
When I wrote the story, I was imagining a Paris Hilton-type
narrator. Remember her? She’s desperate for you to not forget:
In ‘Socialites’, this narrator takes an anachronistic trip to
the Vatican, where she displays a humanoid sort of disconnect, as well as a naïve debauchery characteristic of the rich.
I thought the Vatican would be an ideally vague sort of setting: an
architectural posture of eternity, a symbol of dogma with seediness seeping
from beneath, a historical tourist destination stripped of its bloodiest historical contexts. What sort of knowledge did the narrator find there
that made her finally feel human, and that caused the laws of the physical
world to behave in such startlingly different ways?
If you order The Story of How All Animals Are Equal &
Other Tales from the Brooklyn Arts Press website, not only will you get to read ‘Socialites’, if you’re one of
the first 50 who order, you’ll get a free letterpress broadside of one of the book's stories. Get it HERE!
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