I was twelve in July of 1993, the summer of Gits frontwoman Mia Zapata’s murder- though I wouldn’t know of her for another six years . I was in my…
Cole Cohen
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The Creature Walks Among Us: The Shape of Water, Invisible Disability and Desire
by Cole Cohen March 5, 2018To get to the theater where The Shape of Water is playing I have to take a subway to a mall. Once inside the mall, I have to find…
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#AndNow2015: “To Suffer a Sea Change”: Performative Writing on Disability
by Cole Cohen June 11, 2015Performative writing, critical writing relying on descriptive utterance to challenge an assumed social reality, is the native language of writing on disability because it is inherently the language of reframing…
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On Ambivalence: A Manifestish
by Cole Cohen October 9, 2014Two-headed feelings each have their own brains, which is the characteristic that differentiates them from two-faced feelings. The condition of two-headedness in feelings is most often caused by a developmental…
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Merleau and Me
by Cole Cohen March 27, 2014In explaining the body in relation to objects, the French phenomenological philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty asserts in his seminal work, Phenomenology of Perception “the outline of my body is a frontier…