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Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited
The idea that anyone had deliberately flown a plane into the World Trade Center was so inconceivable that morning that three designers from our office took the elevator up to the observatory to try and see what was happening downtown.…
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A Seafarer’s Trifle
The sticky traps had remained empty except for the one in the alcove of the spare room. There I’d found the stricken body of my former invertebrate friend, prostrate in a layer of residual gloop. I’d squinted up close, considered…
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A Postcard From Dolly
One of those last weeks before school started again, Grandma took my brother and me down to Lubbock to visit our cousins. I don’t know what the boys did that week. I know my cousin and I spend the entire…
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Drag as Storytelling: A Conversation with Hieu Minh Nguyen
One thing I love about drag is the opportunity to become someone else. I’ve never been especially good at pouring energy into myself. A lot of my writing comes from the position of a witness or observer. Poetry was my…
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Singing History, Speaking Liberation: BlackStar Film Festival at 15
What does it mean to claim and maintain liberatory independence in a cultural landscape cloaked in the murk of careening fascisms and punitive censorship?
