February 15, 2017Here I was yesterday, in my office, feeling cute, feeling my invisible pain acutely. I'm drafting this today, on my…
February 10, 2017A combination of Winter Storm Niko and a resulting spike in chronic pain has left me housebound in New York…
November 11, 2016Today, I stand inside my apartment, in front of a closed door, as I have done each morning since Donald Trump…
August 22, 2016How to work when the pain is so great it slows even time? Indefatigable voice curling around and in on…
August 21, 2016Because it's called "research," I constantly feel the oppressive shadow of the Ivory Tower: Western, masculine, rational and orderly, demanding…
August 3, 2016I've wanted to say for weeks now that there was a day, while teaching, that I lost my legs, and…
May 21, 2016I co-facilitated a short writing workshop at C&W 2016 on body modification, deep embodiment pedagogy, and collaborative writing. There wasn't…
January 28, 2016For a half-hour, my left hand, the one with the magnet implant in it, becomes the hand that commands the…
November 15, 2015Written for and performed at Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures, "The Author is in Pain" is my first foray…
October 6, 2015As I belatedly discovered, "The meaning of a machete" was included among other "Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2014" in Best…