Doldrums
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Indoctrinated As Straight
“There ought to be a time in one’s adult life which is dedicated to rediscovering the most important readings of our youth. Even if the books remain the same (though they too change, in the light of an altered historical perspective), we certainly have changed, and this later encounter is therefore completely new. –Italo Calvino, Continue reading
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Dear Gloria
What follows is a slight rewrite of a class assignment. The assignment was to write a response letter to “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” by Gloria Anzaldúa which can be found in the pages of A Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, an anthology edited by Continue reading
2024 Presidential Election, Activism, Adolf Hitler, Borderlands/La Frontera, Cheerie Moraga, Dinesh D’Souza, Donald J. Trump, Ernst Röhm, germany, Gloria Anzaldua, history, Homophobia, Islamophobia, Michael Brown, Nazi Germany, Politics, Protests, Racism, Sean Hannity, This Bridge Called My Back, Trayvon Martin, Vivek Ramaswamy, Women of Color, Writing As Healing -
End of Semester, Annotations, & Other Concerns
Eminem Approach Part of my anxiety about grad school stemmed from my fear of academic writing. Having been away from the classroom since my graduation in 2007, I haven’t written anything academic in a long time. Most of my writing dealt with reviews, blogging my day-to-day, and some press releases for my old job. And, Continue reading
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“They were all in love with dyin’”
Back Pain & Dream State I woke up with back pain this morning. The sensation seeped into my dream world, creating a moment in panic (both within and outside the dream) that my legs had given out. That they no longer worked for me. That sometime in the night, my spine had snapped and cut Continue reading
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Occupied Mind
I can’t even say that I’m not motivated to write. There’s so much clogging my brain that it’s impossible to sit still and map something out. There are review notes floating about, journal-esque entries, poetry to share, and a research paper that will probably never get written because the annotated bibliography assignment I’ve been mulling Continue reading
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Autumnal Update
I made a promise not to lose focus on my blog/reviews once school started, but obviously I haven’t kept that promise. There’s still two reviews I haven’t worked on (one for Babel by R. F. Kuang, and one for Elliot Page’s memoir). There’s also some poetry breaks that I’ve been meaning to post, and I’ll Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 