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Is This Device That Stores a Heartbeat an Authentic Way to Memorialize Someone?
Platforms like Facebook already act as mediums between the living and deceased.
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The Colonizer’s Archive is a Crooked Finger: A Photo Essay
“Colonial photography perpetually assaulted what became the Nigerian body.”
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Taking Care With Broken Things: How I Came to Practice Ethical Taxidermy
“I imagined that spending so much time with a dead thing might make death more understandable.”
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A Beginner’s Guide to Snorting the Moon
There’s nothing we do to earn something as unreasonable as moon dust, or death, or a high C you’re just born with.
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Threads: On Daughters, Mothers, Ex-girlfriends (and Sewing Boxes)
Inside his sewing box was an old girlfriend’s felt heart, stuck with pins. Throw it out, he says. I don’t.
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In Memoriam: On Cemeteries and the Memory of Ordinary Lives
Who could not be superstitious, sentimental, and impractical around matters of death?
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Weightlessness
“It wasn’t that I wanted to be thinner; I didn’t want a body at all.”
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A Queer History of Relics
“As my feelings for R. grow, I find excuses to touch him, to mark him as my own.”
