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Lack of communication, technological failure, and a misplaced sense of superiority has led to catastrophe and massive disruptions of human societies. But imagine if we could actually quantify and learn from our mistakes?
Familiarity, so it seems, breeds indifference. We overlook, consciously and unconsciously, the very things and experiences that are most determining of what we call our daily life.
Dance is one of the most pure forms of human expression, and one of the most intimidating. Done well, it requires both wild abandon and adherence to the rules of technique.
The #MeToo movement carries the momentum of moments, both sensational and unremarkable, that validate women's experiences of real and ongoing sexual and gender-based violence.
Creators from all over the planet have used graphic nonfiction to distill and critically reconstruct the historical, social, and political elements that make up the minutiae of everyday life.
Graphic fiction uses visual and verbal shaping devices to create fictional stories that invite and guide imaginative re-construction.
Theater is life. It is in our nature to perform. From our youngest childhood experiences, we appropriate characters and roles.
Secular writing is averse to certain forms of normativism and ritualism but supportive of humanistic engagements with the spiritual.
Harassment exists on a continuum with violence. The coping mechanisms people cultivate to prevent and deal with harassment become habitual.
Curiosity about a critic's life and times is directly tied to our interest in criticism itself.
For the author of biofiction, of utmost importance is the artist and his or her creative vision, not the biographical subject or the historical past.
Sexiness is complicated. To try too hard at being sexy is awful. But to deny ourselves the pleasure of erotic poetry (whether bawdy or tender or teasing) because it's deemed somehow intellectually feeble, is worse.
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