KNEE BRACE PRESS

A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.

Author: Charly Murrmann

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  • Charly Murmann is a multidisciplinary artist. They obtained an MA in Fine Art from HEAD in Geneva, Switzerland in 2014 and an MA in Performance Art from Leeds Beckett University in Leeds in 2018. Since 2022, Charly has been developing a writing practice comprising biographical short stories linked to their lived experiences as a queer, trans-masc, non-binary autistic, and disabled person. Their short stories are about queerness, sex, dating, identity, and the relationship to/with their body and others. Their writing is mostly based on life experience, but they also play around with fiction.

  • The discomfort of the unknown

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    Unfortunately, my brick wall has become smaller over the years, or less high, with bricks softer in their sable paper texture, more dissolved overall. Some bricks have hidden, tiny holes the size of my little finger on my left hand, where I let some people in. Some people who get in, without a little struggle…