SHANNON KNIGHT
This story is presented as part of The Stranger’s Art + Performance Quarterly, Summer 2018 Edition.
“I take pictures of cute Asian girls for my website. Can I take your picture?”
I stared back at him—a gangly, dreadlocked white dude. The bags under his dull eyes did nothing to conceal his piggish glee as he cast his gaze over my 13-year-old body, which was now shaking and barely holding onto the innocent copy of Inuyasha that I had been reading in peace.