{"id":2154,"date":"2022-11-08T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2022-11-08T23:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T04:23:09","slug":"geryons-identity-exploration-links-between-queerness-and-monstrosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/2022\/11\/08\/geryons-identity-exploration-links-between-queerness-and-monstrosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Geryon\u2019s Identity Exploration: Links Between Queerness and Monstrosity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c<\/span>So what\u2019s it like<\/span><\/i>\u2014Ancash stopped. He began again. <\/span>So what\u2019s it like fucking him now?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Degrading,<\/span><\/i> said Geryon<\/span><\/p>\n

without pause and saw Ancash recoil from the word.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry I shouldn\u2019t have said that,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

said Geryon but Ancash was gone across the garden. at the door he turned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Geryon?<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Yes.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

There is one thing I want from you.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Tell me.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Want to see you use those wings.<\/span><\/i>\u201d (Carson 144).<\/span><\/p>\n

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This section of chapter 45, titled \u201cPhotographs: Like and Not Like\u201d, shows Ancash slapping and then confronting Geryon about his few sexual encounters with Herakles since reuniting in Argentina. Ancash is Herakles\u2019 new boyfriend, and so, he is acting out in jealousy. The defensive, bitter tone that Ancash begins the dialogue with drops once Geryon replies \u201cdegrading\u201d to Ancash\u2019s question: <\/span>So what\u2019s it like fucking him now?<\/span><\/i> (Carson 144). From both their shared and individual experiences with Herakles, Ancash realizes his jealousy is misplaced. Geryon is not the problem, but Herakles is because of his oversexual, immature personality. Herakles does not realize the effects of his actions on others, or he could simply not care. Nevertheless, he does not stop to consider Geryon\u2019s or Ancash\u2019s perspective on sex-whether it is commitive or casual. This is why when Geryon and Herakles start having sex Herakles says \u201c<\/span>what\u2019s wrong? Jesus I hate it when you cry, What is it?<\/span><\/i>\u201d and, as a result, Geryon does not verbalize his thoughts about falling out of love with Herakles (Carson 141).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Also in this moment, Ancash makes space for Geryon\u2019s monster identity to \u201csoar.\u201d By this, I mean explore his identity, which is set up earlier when Ancash tells Geryon the lore of volcanoes and eyewitnesses, and then reclaim it. When Geryon removed his coat before bed, Ancash physically saw his monstrosity\u2014his wings\u2014but now in this particular section of dialogue he sees Geryon as his own self in a way that Herakles could not. Ancash even goes further to empower and challenge Geryon to reveal a part of himself that he has worked hard to keep hidden. Ancash wants <\/span>\u201cto see you <\/span><\/i>[Geryon]<\/span> use those wings.<\/span><\/i>\u201d (Carson 144). This narrative arc of Geryon\u2019s self-realization and Ancash\u2019s friendship to him highlights the ways in which experiences of queer identity and monstrosity are linked and overlapped.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cSo what\u2019s it like\u2014Ancash stopped. He began again. So what\u2019s it like fucking him now? Degrading, said Geryon without pause and saw Ancash recoil from the word. I\u2019m sorry I shouldn\u2019t have said that, said Geryon but Ancash was gone across the garden. at the door he turned. Geryon? Yes. There is one thing I … Continue reading Geryon\u2019s Identity Exploration: Links Between Queerness and Monstrosity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2022-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/everythinginbetween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}