Books: Self\u002Ddescribed ‘writer\u002Dcomedian\u002Dmad activist’ JD Derbyshire showcases their evolving personhood in 88 pieces.
After “Like This,” Derbyshire, a self-described “writer-comedian-mad activist” based in Vancouver, offers an electric showcase of personhood in 88 pieces — letters, poems, lists, administrative forms, notebook extracts, philosophical queries, cultural commentary and autobiographical episodes.
Derbyshire, aka Joshua Dandelion, a “genderqueer, lesbian woboy,” outlines a series of erratic movements across the decades. For JD, the scene of a younger self who was 13 in 1974, a “dishevelled and confused” adolescent “behind some faded-green grain elevator in southern Alberta” is epochal. There, Derbyshire writes, young Janice dropped her brain. That’s how the voices got in her head.
Other chapters return to Alberta, to re-witness a group sexual assault. Yet others replicate the voices that plagued Derbyshire for decades: “You are f—ed. Frog in boiling water f—ed. Galaxy sucking black hole f—ed, looking for an abortion in American f—ed. F—ed. F—ed. F—d. We will always be here. F—ing you up, you dumb f—.” In several chapters the author shares the perilous experience of being “certified insane.
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