If I weren't so busy laughing from a place of presumed safety, what character would I play?
I cry a little, too, because it all feels so cliché. That I should look at my mother and realize she’ll die one day. That she should notice my tears becoming heavenly–sorry, heavy–and approach me, open-armed.
When my grandmother died, I too had this impulse to record everything she said, and everything said about her death.
The show narrates queer and trans characters in ways that negate old tropes about being stuck in the closet in backwards small-town America. They are simply unglamorous, everyday people.
Originally published in July of 1992, this special double issue of Point of View comprised an alternative history of Cleveland’s mayoral past to explore a foundational question of American politics: who governs?
Using serious modes and channels to critique writers like Franzen only legitimizes them as serious people to be debated. What better consolation than to shitpost?
Societally, there is a seemingly collective remorse for the treatment of women, but these memoirs are still, in ways I find unique to those of many other celebrity women, illuminating some of our culture’s most persistently problematic approaches to sex and sexuality.
This archive, in other words, is live. It doesn’t bolster certified versions; it multiplies.
Or, not really a famous writer, not, I mean, someone whose stories were made into movies or so-called prestige television, not someone who appeared on talk shows or whose tweets went viral as a matter of course, but still a writer famous enough to be asked to give talks at writers' conferences like the one I was attending when I heard this talk.
Darras’ poetry may long for the alleged poetic horizon from which waves—and, indeed, shades—emanate but, in its subtle (if finless) wisdom, remains coastal, content to let lyric fall tame upon the sand.
Evans’ FBI file is held in a federal facility hundreds of miles from Cleveland, and digitized scans of its components are not available online, making it difficult for the city’s residents to discover for themselves the scope of illegal surveillance their community faced.
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