the way-too-young-to-be-successful poet from a well-connected and famous family made gains doing the generic 'my identities' routine then turned around and complained about the 'pressure' to confess after he got a fellowship right out of undergrad... but i'm calm tho
you can't have any version of the 'confessionalism's politics' convo without being forthright about your own LIFE. not just your identities, your actual perspective! Correct me if i'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's not something determined by talent and luck alone.
i would quote tweet him again but honestly he'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's fucked up that i'm attacking another trans person
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