32. Essay
Abortions Will Not Let You Forget
by Aliza Shvarts
"At this edge of legibility, we can find new language, frameworks, and tools."
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"At this edge of legibility, we can find new language, frameworks, and tools."
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"They stood around, laughing,
while drugs crumbled in their blood."
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“‘Asian American’ identity may be a construction but the social and psychic life of racialized people in America is very real.”
“My attention tends to focus on the micro, on what’s right in front of my face—be it a memory or on a screen or some fragile blip of the ‘real’—and I let associations spiral out from there.”
“The store was about conversations between worlds and how those conversations meshed together and only Sara could do that.”
"I decided to schmear my queer Jewish pinko self in schmaltz and go out and grease up the stage."
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