Category: Personal Essay
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Feeling the body
“In trying to examine one body part, I’d lose sight of another. I couldn’t imagine what I looked like during the fractured angles of sex. At the river’s edge, it was impossibleto see all of myself at once. I began to understand nakednessas a feeling.” Fragment of Primordial mirror by Ama Codjoe Because of March 8, the…
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A non-definition
I find myself constantly thinking about one of my Philosophy high school classes, for some reason. My teacher, who was one of the most demanding and whom I remember warmly, walked through the corridors between the school chairs asking everyone, one by one, “Who are you?”. I remember thinking hard about the question, as he…