Jun 15, 2021
Business in the Front, Rebellion in the Back
My childhood rat tail was a lesson on the borders of class and gender.
Alex Manley is a Montreal/Tiohtià:ke writer and editor whose work has been published by Maisonneuve magazine, Hazlitt, and The Walrus, among others. Their poetry collection We Are All Just Animals & Plants was published by Metatron Press in 2016. A second book, Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture Under Late Capitalism, an English-language translation of Daphné B.'s Maquillée, is forthcoming from Coach House Books.
My childhood rat tail was a lesson on the borders of class and gender.
