autotheory
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What is a Woman?

On ne naît pas femme: on le devient. – Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex This is an adaptation of a writing from a Queer Memoir class. Parts of this text have incorporated elsewhere on this site. To Matt Walsh. I: The Bio-Survival Circuit Activates at birth. Either/Or. Nurturing/Noxious. Trust/Suspicion. The body is a woman.… Continue reading
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Transitions #3

“Hope” is the thing with feathers —That perches in the soul —And sings the tune without the words —And never stops — at all —Emily Dickinson, Poem no. 254 We world, us dwellers. Incarnate wisdom, the accumulation of nature buzzing restless in our bones. I en-habit. Think back: the I. The indexical points, it describes… Continue reading