Stitch Bitch- By: Shelley Jackson

I enjoy how Jackson opens each section with a single sentence stating what we are or aren't.

"Body Not Whole"
Shelley Jackson opens up Stitch Bitch in an interesting way. I don't exactly know why Jackson chose to write in this particular writing style about this particular topic, but it is interesting and holds some truth to it. It is true that we never see many parts of our body or can even feel them. I like how she breaks our bodies down into pieces, from the inside out. She opens the section with one of her single sentences, "we're not who we say we are." Who knows exactly why she opened with that sentence, but it is fitting. It is true that we are not who we say we are, sometimes we are a lot more and sometimes we are a lot less. I had to read this section a couple of times, but not because it didn't make sense, but because her choice of words is so colorful that I really needed to pay attention as to what she was talking about.

"Banished Body"
In our minds we imagine our body one way than what it really is. Our mind is filled with ideas and 'stories' as Jackson puts it. "It's not what we wish it were." What we really look like is different than what our mind tells us we look like and tells us what to look like. Jackson really gives human attributes, feelings, and roles to our body parts, showing what each one does.