A Palimpsest of Returns In July 2017, I accompanied twelve students from Oregon State University to Cuba on a study abroad trip. It was also my first trip to Cuba,…
Archive for December, 2019
Feeling Like a Bad Trans Object
Being trans in a cis culture means that too many first encounters with oneself come through the shame of exposure. I remember being called gay by kids so many times…
Tasting Embarrassment, or, Liking Leo
I want to embark on a self-conscious exploration of encountering white stardom. To my mind, the white star is objectified as someone else and for someone else, and yet, through…
It Me: Annotation and Restraint
I. Restrained When I am feeling pulled in many directions at once by my interests or my values or my actions, my friend Adam has long advised me that we…
Back to Plath
Is Sylvia Plath assigned to high school English classes in this forsaken country? I wouldn’t know — at least not from personal experience. I don’t remember reading her in my…
Introduction: Someone Else’s Object
A Lost Doll In her essay, “Melanie Klein and the Difference Affect Makes,” Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick gives an account of a childhood memory that she likes to think of as…