In a world that seems more and more troubled by disruption, It All Connects is where I work out for myself how to live in, with, and through the identities that define me. If you find yourself struggl
Wrestling with yourself like that, if you’re honest about it, is to court what can be a very frightening vulnerability, because it means by definition having the audacity to lay claim to a readership’s attention...
“We’re building an oven in my basement,” the ringleader smiled. “When it’s finished, remember, we know where you live,”
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, Four Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
More than anyone else in my life, and despite the fact that we came from very, very different backgrounds, Adrienne accepted me for who I was.
[I]f I had never written, if not a single word of mine had ever been published, literature would not be missing a thing.
The internal logic of this value system, in other words, is less about protecting my sister than it is about protecting my claim to status within the male hierarchy that is a central part of patriarchy’s infrastructure.
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, Four Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
[E]ven to think about publishing these poems, much less to consider making a book out of them, is by definition to place them in the context of the [formal and political] traditions of which they are a part.
I would never have been able to articulate it this way back then, but I was struggling with the question of whether and how I could resist the militarization of my imagination.
I am sure that every man reading this recognizes the ethic out of which that threat emerges. Not only had I violated another man’s “territory;” I had done so in a way that explicitly questioned his sovereignty within those boundaries.
A Poem from 13th Century Iran
Four Things To Read, Four Things To See, Four Things To Listen To, and Four Things About Me
A Weekly Poem from 13th Century Iran
Last week, I attended an anti-antisemitism training workshop in my neighborhood cosponsored by Malkhut and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ). Broadly speaking, the training is part of JFREJ’s larger agenda of building solidarity with other marginalized communities who, as they put it on their website,
A Weekly Poem from 13th Century Iran