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Myriam Gurba

Biography

Myriam Gurba

Myriam Gurba is a writer and artist. She is the author of the true crime memoir MEAN, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. O, The Oprah Magazine, ranked Mean as one of the best LGBTQ books of all time. Publishers Weekly describes Gurba as having a voice like no other. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, Time and 4Columns. She has shown art in galleries, museums and community centers. She lives in Pasadena, California.

Myriam Gurba

Books by Myriam Gurba

Creep: Accusations and Confessions
by Myriam Gurba - Essays, Nonfiction, Sociology

A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Yet creep is also what the fog does --- it lurks into place to do its dirty work, muffling screams, obscuring the truth, and providing cover for those prowling within it. CREEP is Myriam Gurba’s informal sociology of creeps, a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the United States and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools and homes. Gurba studies the ways in which oppression is collectively enacted, sustaining ecosystems that unfairly distribute suffering and premature death to our most vulnerable. She also examines how we as individuals, communities and institutions can challenge creeps and rid ourselves of the fog that seeks to blind us.