@booklet {11516, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Upside Down Frown{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction}, volume = {no. 22}, year = {2022}, month = {Spring 2022}, pages = {82-98, with a note on the author on 99}, abstract = {

The story is set in a future that has overcome the climate crisis \ where, under the Department of Happiness, everyone is being given a \“social cohesion electroceutical,\” a cranial implant that monitors the neural network and alters it to avoid distress before it occurs. Also, each decade the Department provides every citizen with a \“life report\” with details of how they should act \“to reach and maintain their happiness\” (84). The protagonist works in the Museum of Affect that depicts the past at a time that the Department has decided to eliminate it because the past contains \“too much emotional baggage\” (87). She puts on a final exhibit on the History of Happiness that presents happiness as based on exclusion, the creation of an Other.

}, keywords = {Male author, Queer author, South African author}, author = {Jarred Thompson} }