I am, for a short time, shelving this scholarly piece, which has been the subject of several conference presentations, but has yet to be published, here. The pictures are not yet included, which is too bad, because they are hilarious. Enjoy! I’ve Got a Girl Crush, but It Matters Who Knows It: Confronting […]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
I write this early in the morning, drinking coffee, dressed In black. I am in a cold basement apartment in Chinatown, what used to be Chinatown, in the heart of the stony darkness of camo shirts, tuxedos, and bitter, grasping cruelty, in a crumbling city full of black women and men and governed by vast, […]
It’s now early in the morning of the 6th of January. Having resurfaced from the swampy fiefdom of my flu-like symptoms, I’ve managed to awaken at 4am, unable to fall back asleep, for the second night this week. I have a draft due for a piece of writing on my favorite subject – public land! […]
Still wrapped in the fog of a face-melting, reality shredding illness, I’ve come to terms with the fact that I may have wrested this hellish cloud upon myself by repeatedly simply not getting a flu shot every time I walked by a pharmacy in a Fred Meyer or a Walgreens for the past three months. […]
Several years ago, as an avid reader/comment-section dweller of the now sadly soulless Awl offshoot ladies space, the Hairpin, I discovered the trend of washing off the excessive holiday reverie and sodden lushness of November and December with an austere, sober 31 days. This annual pilgrimage to a healthy mentality of clarity and control was […]
