Seventeen years later, my experience has been reduced into a tellable anecdote. Most of my memories have fallen away, but I remember that moment, feeling judged by her. From her privileged ...
Dr Chay Brown concluded by urging everyone to learn how to be “tellable people”. “We know that the vast majority of domestic violence is never reported … but anyone can be a tellable person.
They coin the term ‘narrative prosthesis’ to underscore how disability serves as a crutch, a pervasive trope and device of characterization, for literary and other representations to develop ...
In the summer of 2007, I was freshly out of college and searching for jobs with increasing desperation. I had worked unpaid internships at a newspaper and a literary journal; I’d written music ...