by Mandira Pattnaik Glen Carrie This week, following up on my own advice of exploring genres and crafts outside of routine as per the last column, I turned to making YouTube videos, and actively went about seeking and reading up on memoirs and nonfiction. Among them was Mohamed Tonsy’s “Take the Chalk, The Pens, and the Blackboards” (Epoch Press, 2021). It is the narrative exposition of experiences as a queer Egyptian, now living in Edinburgh, and their unearthing of identity