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A Precarious Arrangement: On Appearance, Coloniality and the Creation of the Self

A Precarious Arrangement: On Appearance, Coloniality and the Creation of the Self

Dionne Brand: “I now recognize myself as authored, altered. As selected, sorted, from a series of selves.”

By Dionne Brand | October 1, 2024

Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us

Encounters with the Local Possum; Or, How Safety Can Hide Wonder from Us

Jarod K. Anderson Rediscovers Awe

By Jarod K. Anderson | September 30, 2024

Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

Looking After the Books: Remembering Children’s Author Joan Aiken

Lizza Aiken on the Responsibility of Maintaining Her Mother's Literary Legacy

By Lizza Aiken | September 30, 2024

“Good Medicine and a Very Bad Drug...” Reckoning With the Deadly Duality of Fentanyl

“Good Medicine and a Very Bad Drug...” Reckoning With the Deadly Duality of Fentanyl

Ryan Hampton Considers Addiction, Recovery, and the Human Cost of the Drug Crisis in America

By Ryan Hampton | September 26, 2024

I Wrote a Trans Memoir Without Even Knowing It (at First)

I Wrote a Trans Memoir Without Even Knowing It (at First)

Oliver Radclyffe on the Long and Winding Road to Publication Day

By Oliver Radclyffe | September 25, 2024

What We Owe Each Other: A Daughter on Her Mother’s Wish to Die With Dignity

What We Owe Each Other: A Daughter on Her Mother’s Wish to Die With Dignity

Marianne Brooker: “We are interdependent, both separate from and reliant upon others.”

By Marianne Brooker | September 25, 2024

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Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

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Abi Maxwell: “This town felt so conservative, its social norms so crushing. I needed someone who would help me swim against them.”

By Abi Maxwell | September 17, 2024

Consent and Power: On Age Gaps in the Context of Queer Relationships

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"To be a woman, even a woman in a position of power, means an erasure of agency, even the agency to harm. For better or worse, we were both invisible."

By Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers | September 16, 2024

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Summers in New England: On Building a Community of Writers in Vermont

Nicholas Delbanco Remembers the Living and Dead Who Passed Through the Bennington Writing Seminars

By Nicholas Delbanco | September 16, 2024

Turning Peasants Into Pinions: At a Child’s Grave in Mousehold Heath, Near Norwich

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Ben Ehrenreich on the Riots of Northern England, Then and Now

By Ben Ehrenreich | September 13, 2024

Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

Language, Love and Visibility: Looking Back on an Immigrant Childhood

Daisy Hernández: “I knew from my own experience that being seen is a powerful way to be loved.”

By Daisy Hernández | September 13, 2024

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