Sep 28, 2020
Taking Thirst Traps to Preserve Myself—and My Transition—in the Middle of the Pandemic
There is something attractive about being the subject and the artist all at once; of being entirely in control of how I am seen, who sees me.
A.E. Osworth is part-time Faculty at The New School, where they teach undergraduates the art of digital storytelling. Their novel, We Are Watching Eliza Bright, about a game developer dealing with harassment (and narrated collectively by a fictional subreddit), is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing (April 2021) and is available for pre-order now. They have an eight-year freelancing career and you can find their work on Autostraddle, Guernica, Quartz, Electric Lit, Paper Darts, Mashable, and drDoctor, among others.
There is something attractive about being the subject and the artist all at once; of being entirely in control of how I am seen, who sees me.
