Five Frames is about 5 moments in my life marked by the variability with which masculinity has shown up - as violent, as prescriptive, as fun, as liberatory, as expansive.

Read it, enjoy it, hate it, decipher it, deconstruct it - talk to me about it!

www.theplentitudes.com/piece/five-f...

"If politics is a dirty business, then there is no place for principle or sincerity. These qualities merely get in the way of what pragmatists routinely defeated by power like to call “winning.” “

“What does it mean to be pure in the political arena, which is universally considered dirty? It means nothing, which is the point of the accusation. It is a way of expunging anti-Zionism from the moral calculus of electoralism..." (cont.)

This is a micro version of that piece, of an evening in February that put me on the path to begin healing from a decade-long bout with crushing loneliness and fear of real intimacy. Thank you for loving me, habibti.

Enjoy! www.fairfieldscribes.com/issue-52.html

Thank you to Vanessa Mártir who facilitated the draft generator session on writing place (rest in power Dorothy Allison) that seeded “Stay or Go” and to @meganstielstra.bsky.social & Essay Collection in a Year (@storystudiochicago.bsky.social) cohort for helping me refine the fuller version.

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