“Is it possible to re-claim a positive future, in spite of my country’s sordid past of racism? Is it possible to return home, to myself? To this body that has been dis-placed, dis-located, dis-membered, and dis-eased, since the time of colonialism and slavery?”
Savannah Sales is nineteen years old and an African American lesbian born and raised in a predominantly white working class New England rural town.
She feels angry, invisible, & powerless. She is struggling with, internalized classism, her belief that "racism is at the root of all her problems", denial of her lesbian sexuality, and a relationship with an ailing mother whose illness is a symptom of a mysterious past that Savannah is not privy to.
Ultimately, Scars makes visible, the psychological trauma and scarring that colonialism, sexism, classism & heterosexism have caused to both the “colonizers” and the “colonized... and the possibility to heal and reconcile for a better future for all of us....More >< Less