Stacy J. Platt - the space in between

08 Nov 2025 8 min read

How to Keep Enough of Yourself Together When the Rest of You is Breaking Apart at the Seams

I do remember trying to describe to friends at the time what it felt like: it felt like I was a raw, exposed, bloody and pulsing nerve ending. One that everyone could see. And when beheld, my psyche felt the whole of the world backing away...

14 Oct 2025 8 min read

The Best Photobook That I Got at the NYABF

The book I am speaking of...neatly fit my favorite kind of esoteric niche paradigm: it's a photobook in the truest sense of the word, while also not being recognizably a photobook except to people with a deep and historical love of photographic process (delight the third).

11 Oct 2025 4 min read

Home As the Dream I Keep Having

Jungian psychology calls the home the archetype of the self. Home is a mirror of the psyche, our inner world. All homes have a façade and an interior; a public face and a private center. If I’m following the logic of this line of thinking, the house is me and everything that I contain

30 Sep 2025 9 min read

What Happens in the Classroom

Writing about teaching is like dancing about a government shutdown.

31 Aug 2025 7 min read

Salad Days

It can feel like we are steeped to our eyeballs within the ruinous effects of end-stage capitalism, but one of those effects that I’ve only recently become aware of is how capitalism is internalized within our emotional bodies.