It might seem unusual that a seminary graduate would resonate so deeply with writer-director Jane Schoenbrun's extraordinary I Saw the TV Glow, though I can assure you it makes perfect sense.
If one truly surrenders to it, the seminary journey is one of both academic exploration and spiritual surrender. It's a journey that makes one less sure and more open to asking often unanswerable questions and diving off life's universal cliffs.
Book Review of the Week: Disability Intimacy, Edited by Alice Wong
With "Disability Visibility," Alice Wong shook us all up with her remarkably constructed collective of writers sharing with refreshing openness and honesty the contemporary disability experience.
As a follow-up to "Disability Visibility," Wong is back with "Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire."
I should start, I suppose, by telling you just a little bit about myself. I'm a paraplegic/double amputee wheelchair user with spina bifida who has, in just the past three months, also survived both bladder and prostate cancer. I'm well past my life expectancy and have also accomplished far more than most anyone expected.
I was married in my early 20s, briefly and poorly, and I also spent a good majority of my 20s shouting an enthusiastic "Yes!" to anyone and everyone who was interested in me sexually whether I liked them or not and even if they found me to be nothing more than a sexual novelty or curiosity (rather common, actually).
