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Anastasia Walker on selfies, seasons, and swimming in the ocean 🤳🍃🌊

  • 19 Jul 2022/
  • Posted By : Sarah-Jean Krahn/
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I was eager to talk with the gracious and witty Anastasia Walker, trans writer and photographer, to learn more about her transition and the inspiration behind her new book, The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is.

SK: Let’s start with the essay that concludes your book because reading it brought everything together for me. You express a longstanding distrust of cameras, yet you thrive in the medium of photography. How does your reappropriation of the medium help shift viewers’ perspectives?

AW: The selfie that essay starts with is a good place to begin. I took it when I was still finding myself and getting comfortable being out. Selfies, as part of the genre of portrait photography, and paintings before that, are informed by cis-normative conventions. A “good” selfie shows you looking and acting in ways that are typical for cis members of your gender. For women, it means meeting standards of beauty set by the movie and fashion industries. Becoming aware of these expectations, I was confronted with questions. Should I try to summon the smile that my friend in the essay chastised me about? Did performing all those expectations feel authentic? In that moment, it didn’t. And I liked that selfie because I was appropriating the genre to express my truth.

Photo of the poetry book The Girl Who Wasn't and Is by Anastasia Walker
The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is by Anastasia Walker
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Dudgrick Bevins on teaching, trauma, and telling stories 🧑‍🏫😨🖋️

  • 18 Jul 2021/
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In the sweaty New York City July heat, I sat down with my friend and colleague, Dudgrick Bevins. We talked about his new poetry volume, Vigil, exploring a new generation’s relationship with school shootings and the unheard voices breathing desperately into a chorus of narrative poetry. Bevins is not only a prolific interdisciplinary artist and poet but a fellow educator. Here he reflects on what it means to navigate the role of teacher when talking to students about gun violence while still processing the chaotic internal emotions that each individual experiences in the aftermath of traumatic school shootings.

Vigil book
Vigil by Dudgrick Bevins
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Michael Harren on animals, grief, and his multimedia marvels 🐓😭🎹

  • 09 Apr 2021/
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Both of our bellies full of watermelon, I sat down with Michael Harren to talk about The Animal Book, the book that archives The Animal Show, which in turn archives Michael’s multimedia artistic stylings, animal activism, and the culmination of the two: his vibrant, evoking artivism. I was eager to hear about the melding of such diverse methods, but also what lies behind them—the man, the emotion, the existential uncertainty. Michael shared his grief and joys with me in a humorous, self-effacing way.

The Animal Book by Michael Harren
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Dudgrick Bevins on fear, family, and finding his spirit animal 😱👨‍👩‍👦🦌

  • 09 Jun 2019/
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I sat down with Dudgrick Bevins to discuss his debut full-length poetry collection, Route 4, Box 358. Struck by the way he explored his relationship with home, family and—ultimately—himself, I wanted to understand the stories behind the stories and what motivated Bevins to reveal the stories he did.

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Route 4, Box 358 by Dudgrick Bevins
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    Anastasia Walker on selfies, seasons, and swimming in the ocean 🤳🍃🌊 July 19,2022
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