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4.5.21, Bern: As if the Australian marriage plebiscite wasn’t awful enough I’m cursed to live through another in Switzerland! Maybe I won’t feel quite so bad about the homophobes to the right of me and homonormativity to the left if it’s not coming from “home”? Although my brief sojourn in Japan suggests foreignness doesn’t insulate me entirely from the sense of being hated on one side and smothered on the other.

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As if the Australian marriage plebiscite wasn’t awful enough I’m cursed to live through another in Switzerland! Maybe I won’t feel quite so bad about the homophobes to the right of me and homonormativity to the left if it’s not coming from “home”? Although my brief sojourn in Japan suggests foreignness doesn’t insulate me entirely from the sense of being hated on one side and smothered on the other.