...no matter how much chatter there is about growing and changing together, sure, growing and changing like how the flesh learns to treat a long-ago misplaced fishhook like a small...
...with heat or chemicals—not to look more white (although I am sure there were those who did) but to have one less thing to make them stand out as "other"...
...brethren in their struggle for emancipation; but this barrier to progress has been swept off by the red sea of civil war. The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as...
...repetitive scratches and whispers in accented language. At @autodespair's request (thanks!), I wrote a short, highly speculative essay that will be featured in the program; I'm pretty sure it will...
...agenda and we were there to make sure it was the legitimate agenda. I dispute the idea that the vote was the ultimate culmination of a citizen’s civic responsibilities, that...
...can seek recourse to the visible as the sure ground of evidence" (1993) "The American justice system is not broken. This is what the American justice system does." Mexico's youth...
...it might affect me, or any woman—I mean, sure, most of would rather hear that we look smashing than that we look dreadful, of course. But the effect of both...
...Trump's America as a reality outside the one I wrote in. I'm not sure adding Trump would substantively change the weird, screwy, contradictory, fucked-up rules (or lack thereof) of Technologies'...
...To be sure, I had locked that feeling away with the letter I sent and disallowed myself from remembering Cambridge altogether until I was on the railway edging toward Siena's...
...How is a plus-size woman supposed to estimate whether a pixie cut would look good if nobody modeling a pixie cut is plus-sized? Sure, it's easy to say, "Just get...
...in. We are hailed by ads only under the pretense that we are observing someone else being hailed (someone who turns out to become us). I'm not sure to what...
...making sure we are all working diligently at manufacturing cool, getting ourselves noticed. When we seek entertainment and relief through social media, we turn up the pressure to perform on...
...for a little while? she says. Sure, Dorothy, it's good to see you. Another hour and your lungs are tired from chanting, Hell no we won't go, we won't fight...
...say, “But you’re so small, how can you eat so much?” And when no one was looking, I found ways to make sure my body never absorbed the food. “Look...