the way-too-young-to-be-successful poet from a well-connected and famous family made gains doing the generic & #39;my identities& #39; routine then turned around and complained about the & #39;pressure& #39; to confess after he got a fellowship right out of undergrad... but i& #39;m calm tho
you can& #39;t have any version of the & #39;confessionalism& #39;s politics& #39; convo without being forthright about your own LIFE. not just your identities, your actual perspective! Correct me if i& #39;m wrong but stephen puts fuckin WORK into obscuring the non-genericized privileges he holds
How does one child go to iowa & his sibling to julliard? that& #39;s not something determined by talent and luck alone.
i would quote tweet him again but honestly he& #39;ll just come up with a lot of excuses for the way he talks, do some handwaving about self-expression or w/e, & then say something about how it& #39;s fucked up that i& #39;m attacking another trans person
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