Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
5/31: swapping
...the gendered words in Elsie Finnimore Buckley's story of Echo and Narcissus. I was following the model of Gender Swapped Greek Myths by Jonathan Plackett and Karrie Fransman, a book whose experimental bent I appreciate. The point isn't to suggest that the gender swapped versions are "better" or are "rectifications" of historical injustices--instead, they are invitations to noticing and thinking about one's own perceptions and reactions. I definitely felt that Plackett and Fransman's book was a kind of mirror as I read it. And I felt the mirror effect in a different way when I went through a story word by word and did the swapping myself.
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