Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
...in . . . He got out of the car, came to where I was and tried to rape me.—We Charge Genocide, UN Shadow Report * For the distinction between...
Needles and the Damage Done
...went off to college, I tried to erase all trace of my small-town upbringing. I thought about Needles as little as possible, and only went back for brief visits at...
The Hinterland: A Travelogue, Part 3
...they always? They had a good laugh, a real hearty one. My own chest bloomed, in huge black stellar flowers and all their usual barbs, and I tried to swallow...
Junk Drawer
...The results themselves are only temporary—they would look different every time—capturing the ebb and flow of our pop culture obsessions. In many ways Odell is just as much an anthropologist...
The Jimmy McNulty Gambit: Mike Daisey and the Thickening Crust of Our Awareness
...fails, of course, but that’s not the important thing; the important thing is why he even tried. After all, Jimmy McNulty’s problem is not only that he’s an unscrupulous narcissist,...
Circle Circle Dot Dot
...hell? I thought to myself. I tried to laugh it off and went over to another kid. And before I could extend my hand, the same girl interjected— “Don’t touch...
Interview: Sister Nancy Ruth, Life-Professed Member of the Order of St. Andrew, Hudson Valley, New York
...to be who I am. I’m not sure if I’ve ever consciously tried to feel sexy. I’ve experimented a little bit more now that I’ve lost some weight; I’ve experimented...
This Week in Art Crime
...the man put up quite a fight, injuring two officers while they tried to arrest him, with Detective Inspector Brendon Cullen saying one officer suffered a shoulder injury. (via) •...
Stories of Our Lives: Suicide
...was. Three times I tried to take my life, but it never worked. How does one listen for the queer children who do not make it? How does one narrate...
Mommie Dearest
Adoption stories usually begin with the conceit of orphans, when oftentimes the mothers are still alive.
Ordinary Boredom
...display are the postcards Shore had made, a series called Tall in Texas, featuring more or less generic locales in Amarillo. Apparently he tried to sell these commercially and reportedly...
The Passion of Private Manning
...a gender counselor and, according to the chatlogs with the informant who turned him in, he had tried cross-dressing on his last trip home to the States. Therefore, the New...
The Mirror Stage
...before me. While the show is hailed as a rare coming-of-age musical about a lesbian protagonist, the novel also centrally portrays Alison’s struggle with her gender nonconformity in the wake...
World of Weathercraft
...seeding to aid agriculture and reservoirs is a common, though scientifically dubious, practice. Weather control is a common plot device in science fiction, showing up in films like The Avengers,...
City of the Moon
...this pedigree. … We need to be very careful, we are turning into what we have always tried to resist. These guys are not only threatening us, they are informing...
Digital Dark Spaces
...is not essentially so different from the culture of cruising that bourgeois gay men created in public urinals and in the cloakroom at the House of Lords. Though the sex...