Nonbinary Bird of Paradise Manners & Etiquette Salma is forced to leave

Salma is forced to leave her home in Nablus

23-year-old farmer living in the Allegheny River Valley shortly after the Civil War

An Unwelcome Reunion

reminiscent of the seventeenth-century Vanitas genre

"The book every LGBT person would have killed for as a teenager

Nonbinary Bird of Paradise Manners & Etiquette Salma is forced to leaveNonbinary Bird of Paradise shakes its tail feathers, reveling in a body that cannot be contained in gender binaries. Its opening sequence re imagines the Judaeo Christian Eve as a queer person who, instead of eating of the proverbial forbidden fruit, conjures a femme lover: "God made man in his own image, so they say. So I made a beloved in mine," she says. Eve's power triggers a jealous God to manipulate Adam toward behaviors of toxic masculinity and