Camp Damascus

About this episode

The episode discusses the book Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle, focusing on themes of queer and autism representation.

Hyperfixation reads Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and you should too to understand this episode. We jump around a lot talking about this book's author, queer rep, autism rep, and it's take on common queer tropes. Episodes We Mentioned: Those Fatal Flowers The Priory of the Orange Tree Patience and Sarah Song of Achilles

Topics covered

• queer representation
• autism representation
• queer tropes
• book discussion
• Chuck Tingle

Keywords

• Camp Damascus
• Chuck Tingle
• queer representation
• autism representation
• queer tropes
• book discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Camp Damascus, Those Fatal Flowers, The Priory of the Orange Tree, Patience and Sarah, Song of Achilles

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