How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things. – Elaine Scarry This work was like no…
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“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” – William James “Recognizing isn’t at all like seeing; the two often don’t even agree.” – Sten Nadolny,…
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“It’s about a man that is ‘apart from,’ at the beginning; he becomes a part of only at the end. The premise of it was that what’s broken is healed…
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How do we educate ourselves with a broken history primarily written and translated by people who do not care about us? As Ann Matter says, we must learn ‘to read…
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We live in a genre-obsessed literary culture, but there have always been border-crossers among us. Some of the most powerful prose of the 19th and 20th centuries was written by…
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CultureSyllabusMini-Syllabus: Representations of blackness, gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora
Anthropological representations of black women, sexuality and families in the African Diaspora (early-mid 20th century) This course will emphasize the history of women anthropologists, especially women from ethnic or…
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Most syllabi I know start from a confident assumption of objectivity. These compilations of sources usually assure us of their realness, their solidity, their rationality. I appreciate them, I really…
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“We are living in the apocalypse. The first moment of life was the first moment of the apocalypse and death. Please, don’t fear the apocalypse.” –László Krasznahorkai “We’re all the…
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Course Description Our society’s relationship with animals is rapidly changing: courts are considering giving chimpanzees personhood, more than 200 U.S. cities and counties have banned the sale of dogs from…
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Course Introduction: I’ve read comics for as long as I have been able to read. Likewise, I’ve been gay for as long as I’ve been alive. Now I sell comics…
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This course is an exercise routine for your brain and thighs. While writing my book Jazzercise is a Language, I read anything I could to understand those famous videos of skinny blondes…
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Paternal trauma, often coined “daddy issues,” is a topic that makes people uncomfortable; as it should. Relating to incest, abuse, sexual assault, ignorance, obsession and in some cases, relapses in…
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In the spirit of my new collection The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press, 2017), I’m sharing material from my “Writing the Forbidden” class, of which I teach…
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If you’re 16 or over, the only thing stopping you from changing your middle name to “Danger” is the court filing fee ($435 in California). But wait, not so fast!…
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