Abstract:This article is a series of conversations using letters as an epistolary technology to open up alternate ways of knowing. Rooted in a queer/trans Black feminist lens, this writing unpacks a set of experiences that have expanded my critical consciousness as a queer Black trans educator. This particular practice of writing to queer Black ancestors Audre Lorde and Pauli Murray works to...
Abstract: After an episode of painful ovarian torsion, I accepted a surgeon's counsel to undergo a hysterectomy/oophorectomy at the age of forty-six. The sudden menopause this surgery brought on intensified a chronic depression. Several decades later, after undergoing ketamine infusion treatments for my depression, I recognized that surgery as an experience of iatrogenic harm, part of the...