writing devastation: on Robert Smith
The Cure’s Robert Smith and the melancholy of living
the legacy of reading and identity
My thoughts on Susan Stryker’s “My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage,” a trans reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
a warm welcome.
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meet the writer.
M. Kerlan (they/them/theirs) is a writer and senior undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, studying nonfiction writing, gender, sexuality, & women’s studies, and children’s literature.
Their writing orbits issues of social justice, love, gender, mental health, and the everyday, with recent publications appearing in Another Chicago Magazine, Santa Fe Writer’s Project Quarterly, Pendemic (Ireland), & Pandemic (Netherlands).
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