In second grade, I joined the Girl Scouts, “where girls grow strong.” In high school, long after almost everyone I knew had abandoned the group as a nerdy club, I…
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Dad ashes his cigarette in the freshly washed, plastic black ashtray beside the recliner while working through his daily crossword in The Oregonian. To make skin tones, I start out…
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WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) has a criteria on how to diagnose a narcissist. These symptoms reflect someone whose sense of self is rooted in hyperbole,…
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ArtOpinionRandomThe Fractilian Monster: Possibilities of Failure, Forgiveness, and (re)Formation Amongst Patterns of Self-Similarity
A fractal is mathematical. A fractal is a never-ending pattern. Both of these things frighten me. To be infinitely complex, to be on continual loop no matter how the scale…