stacy j. platt - the space in between

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.

28 Jun 2025 12 min read

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.

23 May 2025 7 min read

When the Teaching Teaches You

It’s the weekend before Memorial Day, it’s my daughter’s last day of elementary school, my grades are in and graduation has come and gone. 16 weeks of teaching people how