Author: heather
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“From the tunnels of Gaza, what’s more underground than this?”
Around this time last year, MC Abdul first found his way into my YouTube feed with his Shouting at the Wall music video. You might recognize him from Macklemore’s Hinds Hall 2, but MC Abdul was still new to me then. This young Palestinian kid rapping these painfully vulnerable yet defiant lyrics while walking past…
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Madelyn Mae
Madelyn’s fingers moved across the keys, slowly at first and then tripping over each other as the dream and her memory expanded out rhizomatically. By the time it was dark she had ten documents open like sheet music for an orchestra that she moved across and through. She didn’t dare look at anything she had…
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Hard Bones: Part 4
Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Listen to the final chapter of Hard Bones: Madelyn Mae.
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Hard Bones: Part 3
Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14a Chapter 14b Chapter 15 Part 4 coming soon… Jump to Part 4!
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Hard Bones: Part 1
Hard Bones is a political memoir about late capitalism, COVID, muay Thai, and trauma. I put it out once in 2021, then pulled it back, edited more, and now I’ve recorded it for you to hear. I attempted to edit only for clarity so as to preserve the roughness of those years. Many things have…
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The Theater of Operations
I don’t think I really understood the extent to which American fear of annihilation was woven into everyday life during the Cold War, finally coming into its own as a quintessentially American cultural trait once the US dropped the bombs on Japan. It’s a strange collective paranoia to be the only party in history with…
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Hospicing Modernity
The book’s title alone is confrontational: Hospicing Modernity. Hospice care is not rehabilitative – it’s palliative. A patient entering hospice care is not seeking to be cured, but to be comforted and cared for at the end of their life. Hospicing is about accepting the inevitability of death with compassion and dignity, recognizing our shared…