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Teletype

This object symbolizes a passion for journalism. As Queenie moves forward in her career as a journalist, she often makes sacrifices for the sake of her advancement. For instance, when Queenie takes an office that is little more than a broom closet at The Daily Read, she is content since the sound of this object can be plainly heard from her position.

Hair Relaxer

This object symbolizes the way in which the strict norms of beauty that dominate the marketplace in the Western world oppress people of color. Queenie reports in Chapter 6 that she began to use this dangerous and painful object when she was only 11 years old and continued to use it until just two years before narrative present, at which point she was 23.

Shirt

This object symbolizes dependence. At the end of the third chapter, Queenie gets into bed with this object in order to...

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