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Brainwyrms
Alison Rumfitt
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When a TERF bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s
life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to
cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers,
pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya. Mysterious,
beautiful, terrifying Vanya. The two hit it off immediately, but as
their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankie’s feeling
that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanya’s secrets
threaten to tear them apart, Frankie starts digging, and unearths a
sinister, depraved conspiracy, the roots of which go deeper than
she ever imagined. Shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy,
Brainwyrms confronts the creeping reality of political terrorism
while exploring the depths of love, pain, and identity.
Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with
her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going
well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of
herself cleaning for money, drinking herself to sleep. She hasn't
spoken to Ila since they went into the House. She hasn't seen
Hannah either. Memories of that night torment her mind and her
flesh, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, past the KEEP
OUT sign, over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to
venture, she knows she must go. Together Alice and Ila must face
the horrifying occurrences that happened there, must pull
themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside,
and try to rescue Hannah, who the House has chosen to make its
own.Cutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, Tell Me I'm Worthless is
a vital work of trans fiction that confronts both supernatural and
real-world horrors as it examines the devastating effects of trauma
and the way fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other.
The histories of the trans and sex worker rights movements are
closely intertwined and, particularly in the UK, it's rare to find
a carceral feminist who isn't also a rabid transphobe. What does it
mean to write as part of a community that is under attack? Where,
in fiction, is the line between exploring harmful ideology and
humanising it? In Morbid Obsessions Alison Rumfitt and Frankie
Miren explore these questions and talk about the crossover in the
ways they chose to approach them in their novels Tell Me I'm
Worthless (Cipher Press) and The Service (Influx Press), covering
the pornographic interest in sex workers and trans women, online
violence, moral panic, creative representation, and paying tribute
to sex worker and trans activism through fiction. Frank, funny, and
hopeful, and featuring two new stories, an introduction by writer
and historian Morgan M. Page, and an interview with Natalia Santana
Mendes, Morbid Obsessions is an urgent and vital conversation about
making art as collective struggle. All proceeds (after production
costs) from the sale of this book will be donated to Babeworld, a
collective which seeks to create a more representative art world,
and will go into direct grants to marginalised artists.
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Brainwyrms (Paperback)
Alison Rumfitt
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