“And I’m ashamed of that, too. There’s not one single thing about them that I’m not ashamed of - as soon as I step outside their own, proprietary space. There, I love them. I’m ashamed of their not being explainable to Shannon. I’m afraid he won’t be interested in them at all; leaving me out in the cold alone. I’m also afraid he’ll ask me - unlubricated - more about them: there’s not a corner of the room far enough to gaze at.”
Wilder reading an excerpt from \"A Dialogue on Love\" by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) was an American scholar who helped initiate the field of queer studies through her writing, which insisted on critically analyzing a modern homo/heterosexual definition in Western culture. This is an excerpt from a Sedgwick's memoir that recounts her psychotherapy at the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
It is a powerful account of therapeutic love that nurtures self-discovery on the precipice of death.
This is the third item of a selection of texts sent to us by Wilder Alison. Wilder Alison (b.1986, Burlington, VT) is an interdisciplinary artist whose recent work includes painting and works on paper.
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