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DAVID J AMADO
(UN)PROTECTED
(UN)PROTECTED is a hybrid prose work exploring vulnerability, intimacy, resistance, and survival through the lives of Black queer men. Blending memory, desire, and fragmentation, the work examines the emotional and corporeal aftermath of sexual violence while confronting the silences surrounding masculinity, trauma, and queer embodiment.
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“Let me tell you something about numbers.
They’re real good at hiding the truth, aren’t they?
They say 1 in 5 men is sexually abused before the age of 18.
1 in 5.
And most times, the one who was abused becomes the abuser.
But no one talks about it.
Because numbers create a pattern of silence.
A sense of anonymity. Almost invisible.
Now put 5 men in a room.
One of them is carrying that weight.
Or that guilt.
But who?”
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