Writing Samples
Creative Writing
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The Shadow, Martha's Quarterly
A short story about a trans man’s early journey on HRT, written for the 2024 Summer issue of Martha’s Quarterly, “The Shadow,” designed and produced by Passenger Pigeon Press.
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The Gathering: An Oral Heirloom
A short nonfiction book about childhood, written as an Honors thesis in English at Wesleyan University.
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Little Crush Clothes, Fray Magazine
An article on the student-run clothing brand, Little Crush Clothes, run by Holly Greene, written for the first edition of Fray Magazine.
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Sugar Shock
An ebook which focuses on eating disorders and the generational repercussions of food trauma. It was created in Danielle Vogel's Advanced Nonfiction workshop during the Spring of 2021.
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Pink Matter
An autobiographical essay on three pairs of cowboy boots that I owned across adolescence. It was written during Lisa Cohen's "About Clothes" course in the Spring of 2021.
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Page of Cups
Page of Cups is a two-act, 120 page play about Claud, a non-binary character struggling with the coexisting feelings of recent grief and new love, written during Advanced Playwriting with Edwin Sanchez.
Essay Writing
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Queering the Witch: Witchcraft as an Anti-Capitalist Identity Politics
A paper analyzing the history of witchcraft in its formulation of patriarchal capitalism. This paper includes many contemporary media sources including references to film, TV, social media, and current events. This was written for Laura Grappo’s “On Monsters” course in the American Studies department.
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The Politics of Pink
An essay considering the gendered norms formulated around the color pink, especially in terms of queer identity building. This paper aims to expand the cultural connotations assigned to a color through writing about music, fashion, and visual art. This was written for Heather Vermuelen’s “Queer & Trans Aesthetics” course in the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies department.
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Titus Kaphar's Shifting the Gaze
An essay examining Titus Kaphar’s Shifting the Gaze, 2017, a painting made during a Ted X lecture. Kaphar’s work often contends with racial relations, and Shifting the Gaze does so through looking at multiple historical lenses of art. Shifting the Gaze forms as a critique of the art institution as a space complicit to whitewashing. This was wirtten for Claire Grace’s “Art (as) History” course.
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Waisted: A History of the Corset
An article about the fashion history of the corset, written during Lisa Cohen’s “About Clothes” course in the Spring of 2021.