"Unspeakable is a consideration of the silencing effects of stuttering, political censorship, unspeakable wartime atrocities, and the silent communication within virtual relationships."
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
“Letter from Okinawa” describes my research and observations into the impact the U.S. military has had on the island, and tells the story of the Japanese government’s historical culpability by colonizing, controlling, and discriminating against the island.
In the autoethnographic "Spinach Lasagna", the narrator joins a family of southern Italians and learns that grieving is cultural.
The process of seeking pregnancy alone (by necessity, not choice) showed me how limited reproductive rights in the U.S. truly are—even before the recent loss of Roe vs. Wade, that policy that had so shaped my generation’s belief in our bodily autonomy.
“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
The cultural issues being addressed are how intergenerational knowledge is passed down between women and girls in the kitchen.
Michael: Tesserae 1 is part of a series written about a two-year community arts fellowship I had with a Baltimore City public middle school and surrounding communities to demonstrate the power of art for community organizing.
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".
This is from the experience of losing someone who you thought would be a part of your family, only to realize their journey was different.
This particular piece, "What is Human, Remains" looks back at my first year as a teacher, and the unexpected activism in my students.
"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."
