March 1, 2019Patti Poblete has an awesome how-to conference post that's practically canonical at this point, and I still refer back to…
January 20, 2019My orientation to the world is dread, because its consistent if unpredictable promise is painervation, which is a word I…
August 9, 2018Written for my dissertation and performed at Capacious: Affect Inquiry/Making Space as part of the conference's "interstices," a space for undisciplined,…
August 23, 2017One week into tapering off Savella, which would not have been possible save for my paranoid hoarding of medicines I'm…
May 4, 2017I want you to know you're killing me. You always were. It isn’t news. But assume your postures of defense…
April 27, 2017It's the last week of classes, and my course announcements, as usual, have stacked up like this: Hey class, Due…
February 15, 2017Here I was yesterday, in my office, feeling cute, feeling my invisible pain acutely. I'm drafting this today, on my…
August 22, 2016How to work when the pain is so great it slows even time? Indefatigable voice curling around and in on…
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…