The Year of Not Flinching
The ability to stand still, avoid the blows, anticipate the other's distraction, and not flinch have all been qualities of my life in 2025 that I am reflecting upon on the last day of the year.
stacy j. platt
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
What Happens in the Classroom
Writing about teaching is like dancing about a government shutdown.
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.
A Different Metaverse: the stories that contact sheets tell
I started thinking about contact sheets anew when I came across these remarkable contacts from Graciela Iturbide's work in Juchitán in 1970, of one of her most famous images, a woman selling iguanas in the market.