Abstract
Cristy c. road’s memoirSpit and Passion(2012) recounts how as an adolescent she came to recognize that there was a “glitch in the things we were taught rather than the way we are” (45). Evidence of this glitch is that dominant historical and cultural narratives do not accurately reflect the fact that “there’s a billion kinds of people on earth” (45); instead, Road suggests these narratives have been carefully edited to exclude people like herself, people marginalized on the basis of gender, race, and sexuality.Spit and Passionalso questions whether it is possible to recover a history that