spoken on stages around the world. As a writer and creative director, they use their queer, Latine, and neurodivergent perspective to center the stories of stigmatized bodies and identities. She shares a bed with her two perrhijos and partner.
Being Bad: Breaking the Rules and Becoming Everything You're Not Supposed to Be is her first book.
At Electric Lit Egozi tagged eight books that are "not only achingly well-written, but infused with the particular perspective of those who know what it is to be on the outside—even if they pretend not to be." One title on their list:
Read about another entry on the list.The Guest by Emma Cline
A summer in the Hamptons with a self-destructive sugar baby. Need I say more? Okay, okay, I will. Alex fucks up at a fancy dinner party and gets dumped by her rich older “boyfriend” and put on a train back to Brooklyn. Except, she doesn’t get on it and instead spends a week pretending to be totally fine—with no money, no phone, and nowhere to sleep, conning and causing destruction along the way. All she needs is to get through the week until her ex’s Labor Day party where she can win him back. I won’t spoil the ending. A story of excess, addiction, and dark comedy, somehow you’ll find yourself rooting for this antiheroine.
--Marshal Zeringue
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