Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter Music and the deaths

and the deaths

But things aren't quite as they seem

and sharply incisive

Written in the 1850's by a runaway slave

I may favor crowns over coffins

Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter Music and the deathsA tender, moving, and insightful account of queer motherhood and an interrogation of life on the margins of American culture as a self described ugly woman Ugly is a word with fangs that can kill a womans self esteem in one bite. Edicts about how women should look, behave, and think are the brutal forge through which they are made not born. And to defy the pretty imperative is to become invisible. It can be a hard thing to admit to yourself, let alone