Dec 03, 2020
Listening to Kelis Taught Me to Embrace Anger
Her anger had made its way to her music; my anger couldn’t find a home outside my own head.
Her anger had made its way to her music; my anger couldn’t find a home outside my own head.
Leaving my cishet marriage was hard, but it set us both free to find more satisfying relationships.
Without anywhere to talk about sex or process it, ‘Twilight’ offered an alternative space to unravel my own private desire.
When my father died in 2012, I inherited his well-read copy of Montaigne’s ‘Essais.’
But was there a better way to put these pronunciations on the page?
If poetry is an act of discovery for a writer, then even a computational poem has to uncover something new.
To these writers, saunf occurred in the world as a curiosity, but not as an inevitability.
Where I lived and grew up, the novella was never endangered.
When I look at my personal aesthetic (if I could call it that), I see something that gives me room to move through binaries.
Could I really not keep anything from the unbearable whiteness of being?
Though she lives, some part of Korra—the flame throwing hothead, insistent on taking up space—does not survive.
I couldn't afford to live on academic wages, so I became a dominatrix. But after Covid-19, the risks became too great.
Dressing rooms were only special because of how we used them to quietly become human.
If you feel more spiritual or superstitious than usual, it’s because you are.
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.
Congratulations, they said, your order is on its way! Thank you, they said, and I was happy to be thanked.
It turns out all I want to find in literature, whether I write or read it, is a little piece of myself.
Estrogen and testosterone have historically been deployed to produce gender compliant citizens. What if, instead, they were agents of autonomy?
“I needed preparation, not protection. I needed to see myself as a part of history.”
When I save, quit, and reload, I’m in control.
