Stillness and Survival by Jacob Anthony Rose – A Memoir That Doesn’t Look Away
When I went through Stillness and Survival: A Life Between Trauma, Glitter, and the Echo of My Own Voice, I kept coming back to one feeling: this is someone finally telling the truth about their life, without softening the edges. Jacob Anthony Rose (also known as drag performer Sheena Rose) writes about growing up unwanted, unsafe, and constantly on alert, then slowly learning how to stay, heal, and be loved. It’s a heavy, trigger-filled memoir—child abuse, queerphobia, mental illness—but it’s written with survivors in mind, not for shock value.
