Get Your Hands On Wrong Face In The Mirror: An Autobiography Of Race And Identity Written And Illustrated By Lolo Houbein Offered As Digital Edition

hard to know how to rate this very strange mix of sense and nonsense, I like the hippy pacifism that runs through and the strongly antiracist tendency but the way she exoticises other races is a bit offputting as well as her lack of substantive insight into her own privilege.
I think I will rate it quite

low because it was so hard to read, it seemed to jump all over the place, especially in the beginning and was oddly reticent about what I assume from the hinting were romantic relationships although in a way I loved that sex and romance were secondary to the real businesses of thinking and being.


There was a gender essentialism that she occasionally wrote out of and it was hard to see how much if any of that was tongue in cheek.
Decentring males in her life though seemed a good move when she finally got around to it, I have to remember this was published in, It was written when I was still growing up and its overly positive projections for a future I probably would have even shared back then.
At least she mentions the need to be more environmentally conscious,

It's peculiar, dated, . . possibly someone older would enjoy it more than I did, Or possibly they would be more impatient with it as I might have put my irritation to one side at times because this was a very old person talking, one that I would potentially meet in a food coop or a consciousness raising group or women's lifewriting circle.


Anyway I am glad she got time to make choices, reflect and write her thoughts, Born in Holland, Lolo Houbein came to Australia atwith her husband and children after growing up in an atmosphere of war.
She studied the University of Adelaide, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Australian Literature, Anthropology and Classics in, She later studied at the University of Papua New Guinea, and gained a Graduate Diploma in Teaching from the Adelaide College of Advanced Education in.
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