According to the rules of the feminist thriller novel Out, murder becomes its own infinite regress.
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Noctis (and His Boy Band) Save the World from Darkness by Killing Shit
Essay about the Gendering of the Coming-of-Age Narrative in FFXV Published in Ploughshares
Only in a Japanese RPG can a boy band save the world from the nefarious empire and its demonic biotechnological army. In Final Fantasy XV, four male friends led by its visual kei leader, Noctis (whose name means “night” in Latin), use the empire’s language of violence to decolonize the kingdom of darkness. Somewhere, Fanon’s ghost is drinking sake and smoking Peace cigarettes in celebration.
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Where literary and cultural analysis get a face lift
Meet your APIA Ploughshares Blogger for 2017
I got the great news recently that I'll be blogging for Ploughshares for 2017, focusing on APIA literature, gender constructions, and video games as literature, among other things.
7x7 (1 December 2016)
Prose Poem Published in 7x7 LA
The tattoos on your forearms are secret passage to puberty.
Sexuality becomes a magic trick to cut yourself in half.
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The first chapter of my novella, THE LAWS OF RHETORIC AND DROWNING
Novella Chapter Published in HOBART
Maybe, she’ll buy a one-way ticket to Seattle and throw her dirty underwear off every bridge. And maybe, she’ll buy a ticket to Montréal and then OD on Oaxaca smack in the Greyhound bathroom like the lead singer from Blind Melon.
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