Body Language : : Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves

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Call Number: 306.4 Bo, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Essays / Body language
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Introduction / Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile -- The crematorium / Nina Riggs -- When your body is the lesson / Rachel Charlene Lewis -- (Don't) fear the feeding tube / Kayla Whaley -- View from the football field; or, What happens when the game is over / Bryan Washington -- Smother me / Natalie Lima -- Don't let it bury you / Eloghosa Osunde -- Writing my truth as a deaf queer writer / Ross Showalter -- A variant of unknown significance / Taylor Harris -- On the Camino de Santiago / Andrea Tuggirello -- In certain contexts, out of certain mouths / A.E. Osworth -- Cut knuckles / Forsyth Harmon -- Surviving Karen medicine / Destiny O. Birdsong -- What I did for the chance to have a baby someday / Karissa Chen -- The small beauty of funeral sex / s.e. smith -- The year of breath / Gabrielle Bellot -- Papi Chulo philosophics / Marcos Gonsalez -- Little pink feet / Maggie Tokuda-Hall -- Counting to ten without numbers / Sarah McEachern -- In praise of fast girls who just want to dance / Aricka Foreman -- Weathering Wyoming / Jenny Tinghui Zhang -- Attack of the six-foot woman / Hannah Walhout -- The privilege of having soft hands / Kaila Philo -- Teshima / Austin Gilkeson -- In utero, in a pandemic / Maris Crane -- To swim is to endure / Melissa Hung -- The climate of gender / Callum Angus -- Mapping my body with sewing patterns / Haley E.D. Houseman -- Women in the Fracklands / Toni Jensen -- Connecting the dots / Bassey Ikpi -- It doesn't hurt, it hurts all the time / Jess Zimmerman.
"A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within--and against--expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class--a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others' expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave. Covering a wide range of experiences--from art modeling as a Black woman to nostalgia for a brutalizing high school sport, from the frightening upheaval of cancer diagnoses to the small beauties of funeral sex--this collection is intelligent, sensitive, and unflinchingly candid. Through the power of personal narratives, as told by writers at all stages of their careers, Body Language reflects the many ways in which we understand and inhabit our bodies. Featuring essays by A.E. Osworth, Andrea Ruggirello, Aricka Foreman, Austin Gilkeson, Bassey Ikpi, Bryan Washington, Callum Angus, Destiny O. Birdsong, Eloghosa Osunde, Forsyth Harmon, Gabrielle Bellot, Haley Houseman, Hannah Walhout, Jenny Tinghui Zhang, Jess Zimmerman, Kaila Philo, Karissa Chen, Kayla Whaley, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Marcos Gonsalez, Marisa Crane, Melissa Hung, Natalie Lima, Nina Riggs, Rachel Charlene Lewis, Ross Showalter, s.e. smith, Sarah McEachern, Taylor Harris, and Toni Jensen."--provided by publisher.

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