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On the Map [1]

Fiction [2]
11.13.19

Queering the Map is an online interactive mapping project where users can post queer stories, memories, and anecdotes that are geolocated on a browsable world map. In Condé Nast Traveler [3], Melissa Kravitz writes, “Rather than centering the stories around a building or historical monument, it adds a bench carved with the initials of a couple on the west coast, the spot where a person came out to themselves, or the site where a fundraising group collected money for AIDS victims to the collective queer history.” Write a scene in a story that establishes the setting by noting a memory that is attached to a mundane item or physical structure. How does this infusion of a backstory inform the relationships that your character develops?


Source URL:https://www.pw.org/content/on_the_map

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/content/on_the_map [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] https://www.cntraveler.com/story/queering-the-map-collects-queer-sites-and-memories