Sep 23, 2021
Lois Before Clark: In Defense of the Superhero Girlfriend
Superman whomst? Lois Lane outsold.
Superman whomst? Lois Lane outsold.
For us in Myanmar, the art reflects our reality.
We can resist the violences we know firsthand, to truly equate teaching and learning with openheartedness, with survival, even with nurture.
We speak of the radicalization of disabled people, but so few have that experience. So many never even know us.
All the things I would have shielded my younger self from, they crop up in books, too. And they are not the monsters with the glowing eyes.
There was always a feeling of limitless potential at the 99 Cents Store.
Maybe at the end of my conscious existence, my body would be useful as nutrients.
I had to imagine an environment in which theater-making and parenting could not only coexist, but nourish and inform one another.
In adolescence, weekend lunches meant fending for ourselves. On certain Saturdays, my sister and I ate wafu spaghetti together.
They were a two-sided awakening for me; a bi-panic-inducing pairing.
In airports, I have never been a resident alien; I am a traveler, just like everyone else.
In the midwest food desert I grew up in, there are higher standards for what we wear than what we eat.
My preoccupation with suicide was less about actually dying and more about grappling with my own sense of agency in the world.
That afternoon, I learned again something I had known before: that I wasn’t completely straight.
It has been domesticated across Asia for so long, its movements have become opaque.
When it comes to how I experience Dad Culture, I have to admit I’m a sucker for beers.
But the boundaries of class dissolved as I noticed kids at the rink.
Baking was solely Mom’s domain, I believed, and cooking for her was mine.
