Isolation of the body
Perhaps the fundamental damage of the specialist system—the damage from which all other damages issue—has been the isolation of the body. At some point…
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The perfect body
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Katie Houston explores her relationship with her…
Read MoreUpon the body
All our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that…
Read MoreComplex history
When a nation recalls its complex history, it needs to confess explicitly its nation-forming sins as well as blessings, and cast the whole project…
Read MoreAbsence
Three varieties of forsythia, all removed. A loss. Have they been moved, to be reconstructed? Without these three bodies I have lost remembrance. Their…
Read MoreThe easy way out
Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by,…
Read MoreBy the sword
I defer to no one in my love for America and for Christianity. I have devoted my life to the study of both of…
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Self-Portrait
from the series Disabilities and Sexuality (2012) My name is Robert Andy Coombs and I am a ballsy, homosexual, quadriplegic Yooper from Michigan’s majestic…
Read MoreBodies were redeemed
All things must be restored to Christ; our bodies were redeemed too. Children should be learning healthy and holy attitudes unconsciously as well as consciously…
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Why I am a Dolly Parton feminist
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Katie Hoogendam, lauds the subversive celebrity of…
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