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  • Fanon’s Aliens

    Posted: July 26, 2011, 8:50 pm by keguro
    But the fact that I feel alien to the world of the schizophrenic or of the sexually impotent in no way diminishes their reality.—Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks Who is this “I” who feels “alien”? And what might it mean to take that feeling as a demand, even an obligation? Why does Fanon select [...]

  • Sessions IV of X (work in progress)

    Posted: July 14, 2011, 12:25 am by keguro
    You ask if my fear of heights prevents me from loving. Falling is not inevitable, I reply. Fear is more necessary. It is an old conversation, strewn with hubris. Love slays. It comes unexpectedly. It happens when we are not watching. Yet we choose to cross streets, ignoring traffic signs, and I am attuned to [...]

  • Arrivals

    Posted: July 14, 2011, 12:02 am by keguro
    An ecstatic voice: “Yes! I’m home! Hallelujah! Two or three try to recreate the rapture, desultory applause, a wave that refuses to rise. We used to cheer and applaud into Nairobi. We applauded the pilot’s skills in landing us, the first wheel-mediated feel of terra firma, our escape from wing-churned skies. One experienced homecoming. I [...]

  • The Labor of Intimate Diversity

    Posted: July 8, 2011, 10:55 am by keguro
    I am ambivalent about a recent decision by a Kenyan judge to recognize woman-to-woman marriage as defined by Nandi customary law. On the side of “the good,” this decision recognizes tradition and custom as repositories of intimate diversity, offering useful paradigms for contemporary debates and struggles over diversifying intimate arrangements. And while it seems risky [...]

  • Book Review?

    Posted: July 7, 2011, 1:57 pm by keguro
    I keep wanting to like the book I am reading.
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