Lie Like Them: Writing the Unbelievable Parent Who is telling the truth? I wrote this note for myself in the margin of one of my...
Archive for tag: victim-blaming

An Ending
In 2014, I started my first screenplay out of anger. The Michigan Daily, my campus’ newspaper, had released a story on how the University of...

The Authored Self
Writing, for me, means freedom. Which is to say, everything prior to discovering writing was entrapment. You cannot desire freedom, you cannot be gripped by...

Report from the Field: Too Big To Fuck Up
I’ve had straight cis men do fucked up things to me. I’ve been witness to straight cis men doing fucked up things to others. It...

Voices of Bettering American Poetry 2015 — manuel arturo abreu
Do you feel that your writing is necessarily assumed to be autobiographical? How do you feel about this assumption? I do feel that my writing...

Report from the Field: On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence
During my first six months of graduate school I was stalked and sexually harassed by a guy in my cohort. We were both about thirty...