The New Age Camp
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The New Age Camp
Narrated by:
Jessica Almasy
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Jessica Almasy
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Chloe Caldwell
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The New Age Camp camp depicts the clumsy awkwardness and fragile self-discovery that being a teenager is all about. When Chloe, a young woman from New York State, takes a summer job working at camp for teens in Upstate New York, she has no idea what she's in for. And maybe that's a good thing. With a humor that is by turns self-deprecating and candidly critical of the world around her, Chloe describes a summer of Reiki healing, menstrual moon cycle charts, trance dances, junk food, borrowed clothes, teen girl angst, and ultimately emotional growth. Not just for the teens in her charge, but for Chloe herself.
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There's a level of honesty and self-effacing that is admirable and the performance is filled with a frenetic, manic energy that fits the text well. However, this reads like a bastion of being the 'right' kind of woman, and looking into the author it seems there might also be an element of being the 'right' kind of Queer. The simple fact that thid short story goes out of its way to include a trans character purely to repeatedly misgender them and denigrate the idea of being trans is hateful and putrid, not to mention the disgusting way anyone outside the 'norm' or suffering any kind of condition is discussed.
There's an element of some these being thoughts of the time and the experience of the protagonist/ author and not views actually being expressed, but they are not presented as questionable, challenged by the text/ narrative, and there is no question about the vile way trans people are dismissed and fundamentally misunderstood in their presentation in this book.
Look, I get that extreme hippy stuff can be ridiculous and unhelpful, but frankly, I'll take any of them over some ignorant, smug, and bigoted 'one of the good Queers'.
Genuinely disgusted.
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