The memoir opens with the touch of a ghost. “Mean” is, more than anything, a memoir of touch. Each story, each memory, reaches out and touches us. Her memoir examines themes of gender, race, and sexual assault in a way so accessible and raw that it challenges us to see each of the three not as distant concepts, but as tangible realities. Analyzing her experience through the lens of her identity as a queer, mixed-race Chicana feminist, Gurba navigates these intersections with honesty and humor. She takes these fragments of her life and connects them with the fingerprints that others have left on her body. In “Mean,” Myriam Gurba writes, “Art is one way to work out touch gone wrong.” That is fitting, as her memoir is a kind of collage, a bulletin board onto which she has pinned the cut–up memories of her life.
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