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"I needed to maintain a critical distance and understand Ensign Wang as the product of a particular time and place, so as to avoid exoticizing him as simply 'a lunatic.'"
“The war is over. / The builders come: / they build doors with archways; the ceilings are high”
“On December 1, 2014, Ala’a al-Hashemi, a Yemeni-born Emirati woman, murdered an American schoolteacher in a public restroom in Abu Dhabi.”
“When my daughters turned twelve I initiated them into the mysterious powers with which women of my family line have since time immemorial been endowed.”
“The illustrations collected here depict some of the unverifiable experiences that Montague later catalogued in a handwritten autobiography.”
“After moving to Greenwich Village in the late fifties, Machado became a fixture of the queer theater, art, and activist movements then emerging in downtown New York.”