It’s the end of #endometriosisawarenessmonth and I do feel slightly more aware of my body, if only in getting used to having more and more people root through it in search of something out of place. It is bizarre to think of how much this illness has upended my life this year. And maybe more bizarre to think of what it has left untouched. The strangest thing of all was not being able to escape into my work the way I always had, and instead having (and continuing) to learn how to welcome my body and my pain into my life. Today I wrote an abstract about life writing and chronic pain, pulling together Leigh Gilmore with the science of pain, gender studies, and a dash of media theory. Thinking of all the dear people around me who are struggling with their own battles and just trying to make sense of this network of wounds and scars that we all navigate... 🎗 #chronicillness #chronicpain #endometriosis #lifewriting #myofascialpain #hysteric
Perfomance: How to Make: Boneless Chicken
Book Review: Correspondences by Anne Michaels
Original Song: I am not your femme fatale
Music: We Do Not Belong Together (Sondheim cover)
Performance: Living Poetry
Poetry Lives Here: Interview and Editing
Original Song: Rear View Mirror
First Publication: Again And
Original Song: Silhouette
Original Song: Verdammt
Original Song: Armselig
Songs for the Cure: Anumbra
Photos: Who Killed Eileen Holowka
