exposing roots
essays that fracture familiar narratives and map what’s hidden beneath them.
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Cornell, Misogyny, and the Feminine That Knows When to Kill (opens the original)
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Being Met Is My Kink (opens the original)
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Why Would I Trust You? (opens the original)
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Can You Hold What You Awaken? (opens the original)
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How Available Are You to the Life That Is Actually Happening? (opens the original)
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Alexandra talks about capacity for contact, self-authority, and what self-authorship becomes when we stop confusing it with control.Thinking out loud about what changes when we can stay with reality long enough to know something from ourselves, they share stories from a recent month in Berlin and how those experiences deepened their understanding of capacity for contact — of staying available to the life that is actually happening, and to what becomes possible when we loosen our grip on the expe
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