Tag: love

  • What Alok Teaches Us About Bodies and Love

    Alok, the transfeminine writer and performance artist, writes poetry that expands and materializes the abstract nature of the foundational queer and feminist theorist Judith Butler’s theory on gender as a collection of performances, enacting ideas like those found in feminist disability studies, with thinkers like Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Performance theory is commonly understood as an explanation…

  • How to Re-Energize Back into a Routine

    Part of me doesn’t feel qualified to write this because I’ve lost touch with healthy routines so many times in the last few years. But actually, I feel like this makes me someone who can bring a lot of insight to the table when it comes to what is needed to truly create a sustainable…

  • Ars Poetica: On the Art of My Poetry

    Where does my poetry fit into the world? Where does my poetry fit into myself? My responses to these questions flow like the blood in my own veins. Inspired by the format of René Char’s essay “The Formal Share,” my own writing is broken up in sections using roman numerals. This essay will include my…

  • What even is a body?

    This post is inspired by a thought I had today: what even is a body? So, I tested positive for COVID-19. Reading this, you may think that to be largely unremarkable, given that we are over two years strong into this pandemic, but to me, well, it took every bit of strength I have not…

  • My therapist says I’m brave: am I really?

    Short answer: yes. Long answer: I really fucking am. It takes a brave person to sit with their feelings and then do the thing their gut is telling them to do even though it’s the scariest option. This idea, although expressed in simple terms, is deeper and more complex than you would think. In a…