
Bad Faith
In the stranger’s basement bedroom, I awoke, facing a staircase that had pale blue lights
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In the stranger’s basement bedroom, I awoke, facing a staircase that had pale blue lights
Statue of NFL Hall of Fame inductee Jim Brown (Photo courtesy of the author). There
grocery shopping/i am distraught death is not at all in opposition to life i went
Statement from the artist on the piece: Queer, feminine, chicanx, womxn, are all categories that
Oh master of two worlds The crescent moon has pulled your
Section I – Diversion/ Focus This section’s instructions are listed below, but the questions will
Cecily Schuler is a genderqueer writer and spoken word artist, raised and
“Compensation” shows itself as a consistent, gendered thread in my life story.
occasional elements and bodies they make Sunlight, consequence of sun, wakes me. Sweeps slow,
Pluto If we were starfish (who can regenerate limbs), what would trauma
What does genre mean to you and how does it build/unbuild your
I wanted to belong — but I didn’t want to dress like everyone else. Down
I want to write about tierra, which means soil or earth to my people, maybe
Every year it was the same. The then Milwaukee Sentinel printed the pictures of all
Several years ago during my first semester in graduate school, some of my classmates and
Disclaimer One: The intended audience for this talk is mainly white writers, so I use
There has never been a consensus or even a plurality agreement among writers who identify
In 2014, I spoke on a panel called “Crossing (Imagined) Borders: Research, Writing, and the