Content : I had chosen invisibility. Jean — sweatshirt or neutral-coloured jumper, trainers, short hair, no makeup, no jewellery. If I could have really chosen, truly chosen, I would have liked to be a different person every day: try on masks to discover my true face, paint my body, wear wigs, mix and match looks. But I instinctively knew no one would accept it.
Lori, sixteen, thought she was going to a summer camp, as she did every year, to clear her mind and escape a suffocating everyday life.
But the summer she expected to continue exploring who she is quickly turns into a nightmare.
Between hope and freedom, this powerful text exposes the horrors of conversion therapies.
A heartfelt cry for resistance and self-acceptance.