Foreboding Door/ Sand Room

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Final Part: The Room Beyond

Ferin (Robot, They/Them)

- [As Ferin makes their way with you all through and across the threshold,

- it feels like the most arduous journey in the world

--PART 2: INITIATION--

PREFACE

The histories of initiation customs are extremely rich and diverse. A lot of anthropological studies of such customs have borne strongly Eurocentric tendencies. It is also worth noting that initiation is often used as a way of patrolling the borders of cultural hegemony, patriarchy, traditional gender roles, and so on.

Victor Turner’s work on liminality and communitas, which Le Guin references in her essay “A Non-Euclidean View of Northern California as a Cold Place to Be,” form part of the inspiration for this part of the session.